The painted ship was submerged in the silent darkness and gradually sank to the bottom.

The fire on the river also faded away, as if it had never existed.

"Your Majesty! Empress! ”

The little father-in-law and the little palace maids standing on the shore wept bitterly and wailed loudly, but none of them jumped into the water to search for it.

The corners of Rong Yunxi's mouth couldn't help but hook up a mocking smile, everything was over.

The old emperor is dead, and the new emperor takes office, no matter whether the new emperor is Qi Mingshu or Qi Mingyuan, Qi Zhan is not too difficult to deal with against the Wudehou Mansion and the National Medical Mansion.

For a deliberate political conspiracy, it is unknown how many corpses sank into the icy river and were consumed by the blazing fire.

Rong Yunxi's mind remembered the last scene before his death in his previous life, in the fire, the sound of Sheng'er also dying came from outside, and he couldn't help but shrink his body.

Qi Zhan obviously noticed Rong Yunxi's movements, hugged her thin body and turned around to leave, "I'll take you home, Ah Xi." ”

She didn't make a sound, and she didn't want to agree to Qi Zhan.

It seemed that there was a dead silence all around, but at this time, suddenly in the dead silence, a sharp voice came out, which was called out by a little father-in-law.

He shouted, "Your Majesty! The emperor is still alive! ”

Qi Zhan stopped, stiff, but he controlled himself so well that Rong Yunxi almost thought that he was about to turn around and see what was going on.

But his footsteps kept moving forward, and Rong Yunxi pulled at the placket of his clothes, "Don't you want to know why?!" ”

Qi Zhan's face did not change, "I know, this is a gamble in itself. ”

Rong Yunxi's hand slipped off Qi Zhan's placket little by little, it turned out that he didn't guess it.

"You guessed that Qi Mingshu might not kill the emperor, right?"

"The girl is very smart," Qi Zhan laughed, holding Rong Yunxi and stuffing her into the carriage, "If Qi Mingshu's head works, he won't kill the emperor." ”

"But the premise of the success of your plan is that Qi Mingshu acted recklessly and killed the emperor with the intention of usurping the throne, isn't it?"

"To be a man is to leave a way back for yourself, girl." Qi Zhan pressed Rong Yunxi's shoulder and pressed her into the carriage, and he followed the carriage and sat opposite her.

"I'm looking at you this time, and I'm not allowed to jump out of the carriage again."

"I'm going to feel distressed."

Rong Yunxi didn't take the second half of his sentence into his heart, he lowered his head and pressed his chin, there was always an illusion that everything in this life had been seen through.

By the time the carriage stopped in front of the National Doctor's Office, it was already late in the evening, and every household had already started to light up one after another, and no one cared about the fire on the river except for the nearby residents.

Someone died silently for a dangerous gamble.

Rong Yunxi's heart was in a panic, and he was helped out of the carriage by Qi Zhan, and before nightfall, he asked him one last word, "If the prince of Mobei is not dead, what will my cousin do?" ”

"Do you want to save your cousin?" Qi Zhan's eyes were burning, as if Rong Yunxi said that he would really do his best for this.

Rong Yunxi didn't answer, she didn't dare to answer, and she didn't dare to make eye contact with Qi Zhan's eyes.

She turned around and left and entered the door.

Qi Zhan looked at the heavy door that was closed, and he didn't leave for a long time.

Ah Xi, he said that in this life you will die.

So I went away.

The throne is not for that person, and it is not mine.

Everyone is just wearing the skin of a lie, and they are living a life that does not belong to them at all.

Living every day in fear and dread, a lie can only become true when the truth is completely dead.

On the river.

Qi Mingshu helped the emperor swim over, Qi Mingyuan and Princess Yale knew how to swim to the shore together.

Only Huo Guifei was missing.

Huo Guifei's father was Huo Yuanhua, the provincial secretary of the dynasty, and as soon as he heard the voice of his little father-in-law, he hurriedly rushed forward and shouted: "Your Majesty! Emperor! ”

In fact, all eyes were looking for his daughter Huo Guifei, but he only saw the dark and dreary lake and the dark green lotus leaves of the lotus leaves.

After Qi Mingshu and the emperor waited for the people to come ashore, Huo Yuanhua dared to look at the crowd with a panicked face and already knew that there would be no daughter, and then pretended to be depressed and shocked and shouted, "Ming'er, where is my Ming'er!?" ”

The emperor knew the power of Huo Guifei's family, and hurriedly stepped forward to appease him, "Huo Shangshu is a little restless, he has already sent someone to search, and Concubine Ai will definitely be safe." ”

Huo Yuanhua touched two handfuls of tears, walked to the side and cried, everyone sighed and sighed for a while, and scattered one after another, leaving only the people looking for Huo Guifei and Huo Yuanhua, who refused to leave no matter what.

"Huo Shangshu," a person gradually walked out of the darkness not far away, he was dressed in a crescent white robe, which looked particularly charming at night, as if he had walked out of the moonlight, not in the dark.

Huo Yuanhua turned his eyes and glanced at him when he heard the sound, but his eyes were full of darkness, and he snorted coldly and didn't want to pay attention to him.

Qi Zhan didn't care about Huo Yuanhua's attitude, and walked to Huo Yuanhua's side, his voice was very soft and charming, "Huo Shangshu doesn't have to be too sad, Huo Guifei is gone, isn't there still a daughter Huo Yurou?" ”

"If the Seventh Prince comes to lobby at this time, don't blame the old man for turning his face."

Huo Yuanhua's voice was as cold as ice, but Qi Zhan smiled lightly and continued, "Why does Huo Shangshu say it so nicely? ”

"Do you want to play the drama of father-daughter love now, and want to get it from the emperor...... Asking for more benefits? ”

At the beginning, Huo Guifei was only thirteen years old, and was sent to the palace by Huo Yuanhua, at that time Huo Yuanhua was just a small Shangshu Province miscellaneous servant, and with Huo Guifei's rise step by step, he reached the position of Shangshu Ling in a few years.

Huo Yuanhua's face gradually became extremely cold with Qi Zhan's voice, he couldn't help but snort coldly, and glanced at Qi Zhan, "The Seventh Prince thinks that compared with the emperor, who is better?" ”

This sentence seemed to ignite Qi Zhan's bottom line, and his eyes gradually became gloomy and terrifying, "Huo Shangshu, you know, if it wasn't for Kou Yuanqi's intervention nine years ago, my imperial brother wouldn't be alive now." ”

Huo Yuanhua didn't care about his threat at all, and sat on the chair as steady as Mount Tai, "Then the Seventh Lord said, who will the National Medical Mansion stand on?" ”

Qi Zhan pursed his lips, revealing a touch of sneer, as if looking at a group of fools, his eyes finally made Huo Yuanhua's face collapse a little.

"Huo Shangshu, you really don't know behind the scenes of the battle for the throne nine years ago, or do you pretend not to know in order to save your life?"

"The emperor is the current emperor!" Huo Yuanhua suddenly stood up from his chair, his eyes sharp, "The Seventh Lord is cautious!" ”

"Who is the Huo family on, Huo Shangshu thinks about it himself." Qi Zhan left a warning, turned away, and quietly disappeared into the dark streets.

Qi Mingshu chose to save the driver, Qi Zhan calculated this step, or rather, Kou Yuanqi calculated this step.

It's just that he didn't expect that Huo Yuanhua would save the Huo family, win the trust of the emperor, and be able to bury his own daughter with his own hands.

In this fire, only Huo Guifei died.

The prince of Mobei didn't find the body after a long time of cleaning it up, and he didn't see anyone, as if he had disappeared out of thin air.

Rong Yunxi slept at home, and when he woke up the next day, he heard the news of Chao Shang.

The emperor sent someone to find out why the fireworks fell on the ship, bringing a flow of fire, and the criminal department and Dali Siqing checked and didn't find anything, but the imperial merchant who provided the fireworks almost broke the whole family.

"Presumably, the person who did the fireworks at that time had already died in the fire and sank in the water, no matter how bad the emperor is, what can he find out?"

After listening to Cuiwei's words, Rong Yunxi said two words lightly, and didn't say anything about it, the only action was to turn the page of the medical book in front of him.

"The eldest lady is calmer than Young Master Yuan Qi imagined." Cui Wei smiled as if relieved.

"Yes......"

Rong Yunxi muttered in a low voice, and asked casually: "Cuiwei, how is your injury, have you taken medicine for your uncle?" ”

Cuiwei's fingers trembling when she was arranging the vase, she quickly turned her head and smiled slightly embarrassedly, "Miss, what are you talking about......"

"Don't hide it from me, Qi Zhan told me."

Rong Yunxi closed the medical book in front of him, turned his head and stared at Cuiwei seriously, "But he only told me that you were going to assassinate the emperor, and the injury on your arm was noticed by me watching your actions when you were arranging the vase." ”

"It should be very hard to face Qi Mingshu, right?"

Cuiwei lowered her eyes slightly when she heard this, revealing a helpless wry smile, "Young Master Yuanqi always says that the eldest lady is careless, but I feel that the eldest lady seems to have lived most of her life." ”

"The eldest lady knows everything, and Cuiwei has nothing to say."

Rong Yunxi knew from the palace banquet that Cui Wei was Uncle Yuanqi's person secretly, but Uncle Yuanqi was all for him, and anyone could be unfavorable to her, but Uncle Yuanqi would not.

Therefore, she doesn't mind Cuiwei's existence at all, but thinks that Cuiwei is one of the people closest to her.

Cui Wei was standing not far away with her arms covered at the moment, Rong Yunxi didn't know how much that thin body had borne for her in the dark night, and her eyes couldn't help but be a little pantothenic.

She pushed away the chair and stepped forward to pull Cuiwei closer to her arms, her voice a little choked.

"What happens after that? Qi Mingshu must have seen you, if Qi Mingshu betrayed Qi Zhan and them, the emperor could easily find out that you were sent to assassinate him. ”

In this fire, the emperor is using Qi Zhan, and Qi Zhan is also using the emperor, and the key person in Qi Zhan is Qi Mingshu, and Qi Mingshu chose the emperor.

Why? Why did you choose the emperor instead of Qi Zhan?

Cui Wei replied, "Don't worry, eldest lady, Qi Mingshu will not betray the Seventh Prince and Young Master Yuan Qi." ”

Her slightly calloused hand patted gently on Rong Yunxi's back, as if coaxing a child.

"It's just that Huo Guifei is dead, and the emperor must give an explanation to the Huo family in this fire."

Rong Yunxi's brain was a ball of twine that kept circling around, and he didn't understand what was going on.

Cuiwei gently pushed her away, "Miss, don't think about it so much, just live your own life." ”

"Hmmm......"

Rong Yunxi looked at Cuiwei with puzzled eyes, and suddenly remembered something, "By the way, Cuiwei, where did you put the cat that Princess Yale gave me?" ”

"Tell someone to take it down and wait for it, the eldest lady wants to find it to play?"

"Surely, the cat that Princess Yale gave me, how can I not take it out and show it off?" Rong Yunxi smiled, "I remember that it will be my second sister's birthday banquet in two days, right?" ”