The layers of palaces are closed, but at this time, the courtyard gate of Yulan Hall and the main hall gate are wide open in a straight line. Unlike the situation where the upper part of the perimeter is full of guards, it seems that there is no defense.

Elder Kui clenched the staff in his hand and stared at Empress Xu's figure like a loyal dog who cared for his lord wholeheartedly, and his palms were slightly wet with sweat.

An inch-wide apricot-yellow pink mark appeared under the porch that Xu Hou had just crossed the courtyard gate, like a decorative line decorating the floor tiles. A young eunuch accompanying Xu Hou seemed to unintentionally raise his foot and kick his boots to rub off a piece, and the yellow smoke and dust stirred up by the friction line covered the ankles of several people in an instant.

Empress Xu snorted coldly in disgust, and quickly stepped onto the steps of Yulan Hall.

The threshold in front of the hall is as if it has just been painted with red paint, and the vermilion color is dripping.

The old man who was waiting outside the door couldn't help but smile heavily in his eyes. The poison found in Plum Wood is insignificant in detail, and the method of using poison here is more in line with what he is looking for. What's more, now the worm Gu he carried on his body was clamoring to enjoy the blood food of the best of the best.

If the expectation is not bad, the heavy smoke screen is covered, and the poison is stacked, and the people inside are trying to unload the internal force of the outsiders step by step, until the danger is minimized. But the old man smelled danger, and he did not go in first, but coaxed the pioneers who were about to die to tear down the barrier first.

Empress Xu calmly looked back at the door that was quickly closed as soon as she stepped into the main hall, walked to the chair and sat down peacefully, and even reached out to pick up a warm tea that Lu Shou lowered her eyebrows and served on the table. took a sip, then turned to the west compartment with an open door but a beaded curtain and smiled: "My son doesn't follow my mother, Jimin is now very protective of my mother!" ”

"If my mother hadn't been sure that the child couldn't bear to hurt your life, she wouldn't have come here herself." , The shadow moved behind the curtain, and Xiao Ze calmly and directly stated the facts, with a wry smile on his face. What Empress Xu's boldness is because of the mother-son affection that he can't completely abandon.

"Since Jimin is intentionally ruthless, he is holding his mother hostage. Mother naturally wants to fulfill you! ”。

Mother and child? Leaving aside the external additional identity, the plain and sour conversation couldn't help but cause the two sides to be silent for a while. There is still a woman waiting to give birth in the warm pavilion behind the cubicle. Thinking of the flesh and blood of the closest relatives from birth to adulthood, they will see each other one day, which can't help but make Xiao Ze, who is looking at his mother, faintly redden.

Lu Shou, who was guarding the door of the west compartment, looked at the queen and her attaché opposite seriously for a long time, and suddenly raised his voice abruptly: "The father-in-law brought by the queen's mother is so familiar, it seems that she has seen it from Concubine Zhang in the old dynasty of Jianyang Palace. ”

A stiff white-faced eunuch standing silently behind Xu's back chair raised his eyebrows. He nodded crookedly at the old acquaintance who had cooperated with him and then turned against him.

"The secret guard next to the queen mother has actually changed!" , Xiao Ze's heart sank, and he threw away a little emotion of thinking about his kindness, and sat up straight with his spirits.

Empress Xu sighed leisurely: "If this palace is watched by the secret guards sent by your father, how can they come to visit you?" So they are gone. ”

"As the mother of a nation, you actually condescended to be by your side to contain the remnants of the former dynasty and the Gentiles?"

"Didn't your father and son contain the rebel generals in the court? What if this palace accepts a few people who can use it with confidence? ”

Stupid! Xiao Zehuo stood up and shouted angrily: "Lu Shou! First clean up these crumbs that hold the queen hostage! ”

At the sound of an order, a petite figure fell down from the beam of the room, and the green silk in her hand stretched out and rolled up the unprepared Xu Hou and dragged it to the door of the west compartment. The small bridge with a silver dagger firmly protected Empress Xu. And Lu Shou led two or three secret guards towards the two palace eunuchs brought by Empress Xu......

Seeing that the indoor table was overturned, the two internal supervisors he brought were trying their best to resist each other, but they had already shown a defeat, and took a deep breath to suppress the frightened Xu Hou and hid behind Xiaoqiao.

After steadying his mind, Xu Hou simply stretched out an arm, pulled out the bead curtain, and strode into the west compartment, smiling at the eldest son who was sitting in front of her and looking at her coldly.

"The emperor's heart, this palace has received it. It was a good idea to kill them all, accusing the palace of being coerced by gangsters, but it was useless at all! ”

"The queen mother only needs to rein in the precipice! I will explain it to you in front of my father. ”

"Father?!". Empress Xu smiled as if she had heard a very funny joke, and instead stared at Xiao Ze with a solemn expression and said, "The emperor can't come back!" Or when he returns to Loking. This palace is about to call itself a mourning family. ”

Xiao Ze's already pale face instantly became even more bloodless, and he said in a trembling voice: "The key to the Luojing City Gate is down, you not only want to cover up your actions in the city, but also plan to resist the king in the city?" ”

"Wait for the city! Wait for the coffin of Emperor Daxing to return to Beijing. Xu Hou walked to the chair where Xiao Ze was sitting and patiently corrected his son's slip of the tongue.

"Originally, I thought you were just going to take advantage of your father's suburban sacrifice to plot the heir of the sixth brother. I don't want the queen's final goal to kill the king! ”

Even if the noble ministers in Luojing City had received a message from the queen that they were going to embarrass Princess Yan at home. will only be a royal mother-in-law and daughter-in-law dispute, and he will watch from the wall with a clear self-preservation. Even some families will sell their favors to Empress Xu, and most of the palace guards will get on the boat with such an idea, and it will be too late when the boat arrives in the heart of the river.

"Your uncle Wei Guogong is with him, and the guards under his command have made an appointment to do it on the sixteenth day of the first lunar month...... The He family transferred private troops to help the southern suburbs. Li Yu, who was in charge of the political army in the city, was also persuaded by the palace......"

Xu Hou whispered, while walking a few steps slowly, raised his hand and pushed the closed warm pavilion partition behind him, seeing that the door did not open, he could only caress the hollow lotus on the partition door and sighed: "You have been sick, and when you have some energy and wholeheartedly only care about the woman inside, where would you think?" ”

"My father is the son of heaven immediately, and he will not be easily taken advantage of by Xiaoxiao, and the generals in the army are not able to be controlled by Uncle Xu. The queen was too confident in the prospects. ”

"Xiao Rui?!" , At the mention of her husband, Empress Xu couldn't help but show a contemptuous smile on her face, turned her eyes to Xiao Ze and said seriously: "Although Wei Guogong is weak, this palace ordered him to contact the generals in the name of the prince of the East Palace!" ”

"Prince Order?! In other words, whether I succeed or fail, I have become a murderer? Xiao Ze pointed to the tip of his nose as if crying and laughing, and had the urge to vomit three liters of blood immediately.

"It can only be done!" , Empress Xu stepped forward and lovingly dragged Xiao Ze's hand, and said with tears: "Jimin!" That's already the case. For the sake of you and your children, you still obeyed the arrangements of this palace. Otherwise, there are eggs under the nest? ”

Xiao Ze closed his eyes slightly and leaned back on the back of the chair, showing his despair.

Outside the door, Lu Shou reported in a low voice that he had taken the two palace eunuchs and put them in a black cloth bag and threw them in the east compartment, and he only hummed softly and did not give any further orders.

Xu Hou sat diagonally beside Xiao Ze, completely ignoring the humanoid tools that had been sacrificed and discarded, and continued to whisper and persuade him.

The current situation looks like she is trapped in Yulan Hall alone. The attendants brought with them were also surrounded by the guards of the East Palace, but there were still 30,000 forbidden troops in the already locked Luojing City who would rush into the East Palace at any time to rescue the abducted queen and prince. As long as Xiao Ze can agree to follow her back to the palace with his dependents, everything will be solved.

"How did the queen mother persuade Li Yu? Or in the name of a retainer? After about a moment, Xiao Ze, who thought that he wanted to get more information to help him think about countermeasures, slowly asked questions.

Her Royal Highness the Queen couldn't help but blushed slightly embarrassed, and was stunned for a while before she said truthfully: "The palace promised him to be the left minister, and also set his eldest granddaughter for Han'er." ”

"These conditions you give, my father can also give him!" , The corners of Xiao Ze's mouth hooked up a faint irony. After thinking about it, he continued to say his guess with difficulty: "But the queen mother estimated that she also promised that the five-year-old little emperor could immediately welcome back a seven-year-old queen." ”

"Ze'er!" , with a painful cry, Empress Xu grabbed his chest and sobbed: "You were in critical condition that day, and this palace only wanted this country to be inherited by your sister-in-law, so it made this decision." Now...... If your illness is cured, it is natural that you ascend the throne. ”

"To this day, the queen mother really wants her son's illness to be cured?" Xiao Ze stared at Xu Hou's reddish eyes with suspicion.

At her son's burning gaze, Empress Xu, who was a beat of her heart, gritted her teeth without hesitation and said, "That." That's nature! ”。

After all, it is his own flesh and blood, and it is unbearable to give it up lightly. But Empress Xu asked herself, she didn't want her son who had made up her mind a few days ago to live as a certain death, even if she made concessions, she just wanted to put him seriously ill in the position of God for a while. The heart knot of killing Emperor Jing Xiao Rui was tied up, and Empress Xu did not dare to guarantee that if Xiao Ze really sat on the emperor's throne, he would not attack himself and the Xu family.

Knowing his son Mo Ruo's mother, Xiao Ze's heart, and the relationship between him and his father. Empress Xu was clear.

Making such a decision, I will feel a little guilty about my son. After Xu Houshu finished answering the bluffing lie, he immediately pulled the veil and lowered his head as if unintentionally to wipe away his tears.

Sure enough, it's all in the material! Xiao Ze curled the corners of his mouth slightly, closed his eyes again, and gently grabbed one of Empress Xu's hands and whispered: "Queen Mother, let Rong Erchen think about it again!" ”

Think. was dragged into a long process by Xiao Ze.

The sun was setting in the west, and the light that sifted into the room gradually became dim and unclear, and the dappled light and shadow crossed Xiao Ze's sleepy face leaning on the back of his chair.

After getting up several times and wanting to call and worrying about interrupting Xiao Ze's thoughts, Xu Hou was a little restless. She quietly withdrew her hand from Xiao Ze's palm and kept pacing in front of the door.

Suddenly, a muffled snort entered Empress Xu's ears. Xu Hou listened carefully to the small sound coming from the warm pavilion, and his face changed in an instant.

"What is the queen mother going to do?" , Xu Hou's hand that was about to slam on the door was firmly held in his hand by Xiao Ze, who suddenly got up and jumped closer.

"What am I going to do? Xiao Ze, you deliberately dragged me here! Xu Hou roared angrily, "The woman inside is about to give birth, isn't it?" ”

"Yes!" , Xiao Ze simply responded, and leaned against the wall by the door with an angry Xu Hou, and glanced at the small bridge that had been guarding the side. His hands and feet couldn't bear it, and it was very difficult to control Queen Xu, so he could only ask people to come over and help control his mother's golden body.

It took a lot of effort to take his mother hostage while deceitful, just to fulfill another woman who wanted to be a mother.

"The queen mother wants to condemn her sons, and please wait for tomorrow. The attendants stationed outside the hospital also asked the queen mother to give an order to drive them away. How to contact Li Yu, and ask the queen mother to show them! ”

At the beginning, I only took the two who followed Xu Hou into the house behind closed doors, because I was afraid that the grass and snakes would lead to the trouble of seeing each other. Now that he can't drag it out anymore, Xiao Ze can only make a request directly to Empress Xu.

"Impossible!" , Xu Hou, who was being tied by Xiaoqiao with silk handkerchief, raised her angry voice to a sharp voice, "Xiao Jimin! That slut doesn't want to give birth smoothly! She has to die, she has to die! ”。 Xu Hou, who was deeply annoyed that he was in a predicament by mistake, deliberately bit a few dead words in the Xinuan Pavilion.

As if he had ears that were good at eavesdropping, the white-haired old eunuch outside the Yulan Hall who was being guarded by the guards of the East Palace with his companions drooped his white eyebrows, and his hands trembled and knocked the blood vine staff in his hand to the ground. A low hum burst through the wood and flew away.

In the east compartment of the Yulan Hall, where the door was locked, a black cloth bag containing two corpses was dropped on the ground. The two eunuchs who went south and then broke into the north, Lu Shou carefully checked them when he took them, and did not find any foreign objects or toxins. According to Zhou Manyun's previous explanation, after strangling the person to death, they hurriedly found a black cloth bag that was as strong as possible to hold the corpse, just in case. But the more this is the case, the more Lu Shou inevitably complains in his heart that Zhou Manyun actually brought the poisonous amethyst to Xiao Hong to the far south.

A small black-brown insect with white wings hovered back and forth on a body bag, and then drilled into the bag through a small hole in the seam.

In an instant, the bag swelled. At first, the white-faced eunuch who recounted his old acquaintance with Lu Shouke became an inexplicable flatulent corpse after his death.

In the west compartment, leaning against the door of the warm pavilion, Empress Xu's curse was still chattering, "Damn wild sluts, you must die together!" And the little cub who shouldn't have been in the world at all......"

Zhou Manyun, who silently bit the yarn and survived for a few hours, listened to the cursing outside, and finally couldn't help but stalk the green tendons on his neck and let out a painful sound.

The woman's pain was like a knife, and a faint blood appeared in the middle of the warm pavilion.

"Sister Yun! Soon! Soon! If you work harder, you'll be fine......", Xiao Man held Man Yun's hand tightly and whispered with tears in his eyes to reassure.

"Big brother! You come in with the bridges! Come on in! Man Yun took a deep breath, hissing and crying.

Xiao Ze's ears jumped, and he yelled: "Kill all the people brought by the queen!" ”。 The more critical the situation, the sooner all potential dangers should be eliminated.

With a promise, there was an uproar outside the courtyard gate of Yulan Hall.

"Come in! If you don't want to die, come in! Man Yun stiffened up and let out a roar of rage even more eagerly.

Flowing Water, who was standing beside her, gritted her teeth and ran forward, opened the door, and a cold little hand first clasped Lu Shou, who was staring in the direction of the east compartment in a daze, and pulled him back.

Then, stepping into the Xinuan Pavilion were Xiaoqiao and Xiao Ze, who were dragging Xu Hou.

As soon as the door was dangerously closed, there was a loud bang outside. The inner bag of the east compartment was shattered, and scattered in the air were thousands of small insects that had just exploded from the corpses. Like their female Gu, they have a black-brown body half smaller than a mosquito, a pair of transparent white wings, and a thin beak as sharp as a needle.

They were like a layer of floating ash that buzzed and landed on another sack...... (To be continued......)