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Lin Zhaoyan and they came in from the north gate, and they didn't need to go through the outer hall, they directly passed through Yuhua Lane and entered the Lihua Hall of the inner palace.

Lin Zhaoyan didn't pay attention, and was stunned when he caught a glimpse of the plaque in front of the hall.

Lihua Palace.

Concubine Li......

Could it be that the palace in this secluded place is Lin Xingyan's residence?

"Girl, let's go quickly, this Huanyue Xuan is in the west, and I have to walk for a while, I'm afraid it's too late to go." Seeing that she was stunned, Su Wen reached out and tugged at her.

Lin Zhaoyan came back to his senses and subconsciously asked, "Is this Lin Xingyan's bedroom?" ”

"It's indeed Concubine Li's." Su Wen replied naturally.

Lin Zhaoyan let out an "oh", and looked at Su Wen's eyes more and more curious.

Even she, a person who has been in the palace several times, is dizzy when she walks in this huge Forbidden City, how can Su Wen be so familiar with a little girl?

Xiao Qi sent her to follow her, it shouldn't be as simple as protecting her, right?

This thought was just a flash, Lin Zhaoyan didn't let himself think about it much, things have come to this point, no matter what Xiao Qi's purpose is, he can't hide it for long.

Huanyue Xuan arrived soon.

Lin Zhaoyan looked at the brightly lit dormitory, even if he didn't know the situation inside, he could feel the dull and oppressive atmosphere.

"Girl, go in, don't be afraid, the slave is waiting for you outside."

Su Wen's voice recalled her senses, Lin Zhaoyan turned his head, looked at her who was as calm as water, and finally couldn't help but speak softly, "Su Wen, do you know what will happen?" ”

Su Wen smiled slightly, "Girl, go in, you just need to know that no matter where you are, you will not be in danger." ”

Lin Zhaoyan's heart palpitated, and he didn't speak again. He nodded quietly and walked towards the dormitory.

It's just that before she reached the door of the dormitory, someone grabbed her arm.

"Why are you here!" A voice of obvious anxiety and stunned came.

Lin Zhaoyan was taken aback, and turned his head to meet the eyes of the second prince.

"Me. I heard that my father had entered the palace. Lin Zhaoyan forced himself to calm down and broke free from Xiao Huan's clamps.

Xiao Huan glared at her, "How did you get into the palace!" ”

Lin Zhaoyan hesitated, and casually asked, "How is my father?" And Concubine Wan and Prince Fengqing, why are you here? Didn't you say you were going to protect them? ”

Her question really dispelled Xiao Huan's anger.

“…… I'm sorry. Xiao Huan turned his face sideways, avoiding her burning gaze, and said in a hoarse voice: "When I entered the palace, Gongzi Fengqing had already taken poison and died, as for your father...... They are negotiating inside. I...... Don't break in, or it won't be good for your father. ”

"Negotiations? And with whom?! Lin Zhaoyan was taken aback and was about to break in.

She was afraid that the emperor would use the trick of taking poison to deal with Lin Chen.

The second prince stopped her and comforted her softly, "You don't have to worry. It's okay for the time being, I'm just waiting here, if there is anything, I will rush over as soon as possible, but it really doesn't work now, Concubine Wan stabbed the emperor, the imperial grandmother is here, and her old man is angry. If I rush to intercede at this time, I will only anger her even more, and put Concubine Wan and your father in an even more dangerous situation. ”

Lin Zhaoyan understood the truth of what he said, but he was still very worried.

How could she rest assured that she would put her father and Concubine Wan there and be alone with the Queen Mother!

Who knows what crazy moves they will make!

"Don't worry, it's okay, I won't let your father have an accident again." Xiao Huan understood her feelings. I want to say a lot of comforting words, but in the end, there is only one sentence.

That's his promise at the moment.

Although, he is very unsure in his heart.

From the moment Lin Chen suddenly appeared, his heart had been up and down. There is no peace.

He didn't understand how Lin Chen came, and he didn't understand why the expressions of the imperial grandmother and father had become so ugly.

He had a gut feeling that something was going to happen.

This intuition was especially strong at the moment when he saw Lin Zhaoyan appear.

Xiao Huan stared at Lin Zhaoyan's anxious and worried side face, and couldn't help but reach out and hug her over and hugged her tightly.

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At this time, Huanyue Xuan was tense.

Lin Chen ignored the eyes of the emperor and the queen mother, hugged the embarrassed Xu Wanru tightly, and said coldly to the emperor who was obviously angry to the extreme: "Xiao Heng, you committed such a heart-wrenching ugly thing back then, and you still can't cover it up now!" ”

"Lin Chen! How can such nonsense be spoken? Insulting the royal family, the following crimes, this is a big crime of robbing the family and destroying the nine clans! The Queen Mother stared at Lin Chen, her eyes full of warning.

She knew that Lin Chen was not afraid of death, but he was not alone, he still had parents, brothers, sons, and daughters, if he could really let go, what happened fifteen years ago would not have happened!

Who knew that Lin Chen sneered, met the Queen Mother's sharp gaze, and said lightly: "Queen Mother, you don't have to use the Jian'an Hou Mansion to force each other anymore, I have been a coward for my family for fifteen years, but you deceive people too much, I don't want to be cowardly anymore!" As he spoke, he hugged Xu Wanru even tighter, and raised his voice and said: "I entered the palace this time, I didn't think about getting out alive, fifteen years, I have been living for fifteen years, if I give up Wanru for the Hou Mansion this time, I am not worthy of being a person!" Therefore, even if you go and slaughter my Lin family immediately, I will not let you get your wish! ”

The Queen Mother's face suddenly became extremely ugly.

Slaughter him all over the house?

How can it! Now that the situation in the court is unstable, if something goes wrong in the Marquis of Jian'an's mansion, I am afraid that it will cause political turmoil and be unfavorable to the royal family.

Even if they don't think about it, there's no reason for them to do so.

If the hundred officials know that the emperor once took the wife of the minister, the royal family will lose face, and it will be difficult to win people's hearts!

Also, there is Xu Sheng.

If the truth of Xu Sheng's death is known by hundreds of officials, it will definitely cause a great shock!

Xu Sheng's protégés are all over the country, and now many important positions in the court are his classmates, friends or students.

When he rebelled, I don't know how many people cried out for him, and even now some people want to overturn the case for him.

Although it was the He family who caused Xu Sheng to be unjustly killed, the emperor played a role that cannot be ignored!

He knew Xu Shenggang's upright temper, and he was afraid that Xu Sheng would shout everywhere when he knew that he had robbed his daughter, causing him to lose face, so he would push the boat down the river according to the He family's wishes.

She couldn't forget the situation when the Xu family was beheaded by the whole house. The voice of the mournful cry still reverberates in her head to this day.

It is precisely because she has done too many sins that she wants to save that child, which is regarded as atonement.

The Queen Mother looked at Lin Chen, who was protecting Concubine Wan tightly, as if she wanted to fight them to the death. I sighed heavily in my heart.

If he had had the courage fifteen years ago, where would this have happened?

With the status and power of the Marquis of Jian'an back then, if they really want to resist and refuse, they don't dare to fight hard.

It's just weird, Mrs. Lin and Jian'anhou are insatiable, cold and ruthless, and are willing to take their daughter-in-law to their future, while Lin Chen can't let go of his parents and relatives. will cause so many tragedies.

It's also strange that she couldn't dissuade the emperor in time, knowing that this matter was a big deal, but she still couldn't resist the emperor's obsession.

After all, she owed him back then in the matter of Prince Xiao.

She just wanted to make amends for this son.

She's not wrong!

The Queen Mother's heart ached for a while, and she really wanted to let Lin Chen and Xu Wanru go like this. Also this pair of lovers is free, but reason tells her that it can't.

Absolutely not.

She couldn't risk her royal reputation.

What was missed back then was missed.

It can only be said that they should be like this.

"Lin Chen, since that's the case, don't blame the mourning family for being ruthless." The Queen Mother looked at Lin Chen, intending to give him one last chance. "You should know that your Jian'an Hou Mansion has been in turmoil recently, and your eldest brother has made a lot of mistakes, not to mention fatal, each of them adds up to enough for him, besides. The royal family wants a person to be guilty, that's a simple thing, do you really want your century-old foundation to be ruined? ”

Lin Chen laughed "hehe", "Queen Mother, you can go." As long as you can walk through the palace gates. ”

"What do you mean?" The Queen Mother's face changed.

Lin Chen looked at her, his eyes full of sympathy, "Queen Mother, you have been smart all your life, and you still can't understand it?" Jian'an Hou's Mansion is Concubine Jing's foreign family, how can it really be as neutral as it seems on the surface? Is my eldest brother really a pure minister? Your royal family wants civil and military officials to only serve the emperor, and you want all the princes to keep to themselves, but you don't know that the battle for the throne is inevitable, and it has been the case for thousands of years, you want to suppress it, is it possible? The second prince and the third prince have already reached the point where they are on the same page, you have helped the second prince to destroy Cao Zhijing and Zhou Tingchen, the two right-hand men, Jian'an Hou Mansion is the last bottom line of the three princes, as long as you destroy the Hou Mansion today, tomorrow the three princes will be able to launch a rebellion and outflank the Forbidden City, at that time, none of us will want to escape! ”

Lin Chen's words were exaggerated, but what he said was the truth.

The emperor has unconsciously favored the second prince, the third prince is not a fool, and if the Jian'an Hou Mansion falls again, he must know that he has no hope of winning the heir, and he will be angry and desperate.

The Queen Mother understood, and her face turned pale in an instant.

When the emperor heard this, his face, which was already pale from blood loss in his arm, turned even paler, and he stared at Lin Chen and said angrily: "Is this serious?!" ”

His son is playing tricks under his nose!

"Is it true, won't the emperor know if he tries it?" Lin Chen looked at the emperor and smiled coldly, "The emperor may not know that when I left the official position and returned to the house to indulge in calligraphy and painting, it was actually a pretense, over the years, every step of my eldest brother in the court was guided by me behind my back, including, how to induce the third prince to break with the second prince." ”

The emperor's face changed greatly, and his eyes looking at Lin Chen were full of surprise and incredulity.

"Xiao Heng, the hatred of taking my wife is not shared, I am cowardly, but it doesn't mean that I will sit still, I won't kill you with my own hands, but I want you and your son to kill each other!"

"The third prince may not be understood by you, he inherited all your selfishness and ruthlessness, in his mind, nothing is more important than the throne."

"You have been obsessed with the pleasure of men and women recently, I'm afraid you don't know that this palace has already changed hands."

Lin Chen said word by word, and every word he said was like a heavy hammer, hitting the emperor's heart hard.

It turns out that he set up a game for him!

Either he will let him go, or he will be served by his own son?

Although he knew that he could not believe his words, because it was likely to be a lie to confuse him, he did not dare not believe it.

For the consequences of unbelief were not something he could bear.

Lin Chen looked at the emperor's obviously panicked expression, a sneering smile curled up on his lips, and at the same time, he was also slightly relieved.

Naturally, he said a lot.

The third prince is ruthless, but he is not stupid, and he will not let himself rebel at the risk of being scolded by the world until he is forced to do so.

The second prince has always been a soft and hard person, he obviously has no intention of taking the throne, if it weren't for the group of people from Duan Guifei and the He family making trouble behind their backs, it is estimated that this throne would have been the third prince a long time ago.

Although the second prince has been facing the third prince head-on for unknown reasons recently, it will take some time for them to really fight.

He would say this, but he just wanted to protect the Jian'an Hou Mansion.

Before he came, he had already gone to find Xiao Wangye, hoping that he would keep his promise, but he still couldn't help but worry.

As for himself.

Because of the sudden incident of Feng Qing Gongzi, the plan was advanced, and he didn't think about getting out alive before entering the palace.

This time, he can finally be with Wanru.

There are only them, and no one can tear them apart.

Lin Chen looked down at Xu Wanru, and the affection in his eyes moved everyone who saw it.

Xu Wanru also looked up at him, as if she knew what he meant, nodded lightly, and smiled, "Achen, I'm not afraid." ”

She is not afraid of death, as long as she is with him.

Fifteen years ago, she wasn't afraid.

Now, she is even more afraid.

Lin Chen stretched out his hand and rubbed her hair, this was an intimacy that had been absent for fifteen years, "It's like, it's me who is not good, I have made you wait for so many years, from now on, I will never let you go again." ”

Xu Wanru shook his head, buried his whole face in his chest, and said no more.

She had already heard it from Lin Chen's words.

He never gave up on her.

He had been looking for a chance to save her.

It's just that...... I have been waiting for this opportunity for fifteen years.

And it won't have to be successful.

Maybe it'll be good to wait a while.

It's all her fault, it's her woman's kindness that hurts him and Qing'er.

But...... It does not matter.

Seeking benevolence and obtaining benevolence is not a kind of happiness.

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