"Is the Riveting General really missing?" In the court, Cocoon opened his mouth to ask the officials below.

"Your Majesty, after the general was attacked at the border pass, he did break through with a small team of personal soldiers, and then there was no more news." The guard generals who came back from the border pass were still wearing bandages and were heartbroken.

"The minister invited himself to lead his troops to the border pass to find the whereabouts of the general." Young Master Yi's eyes were red, and he hadn't slept since he thought about it.

"The young general is calm and impatient, now that the border guards have been injured, if they immediately send troops to search on a large scale, I am afraid that the Ning army, which was successful in the previous sneak attack, will have a chance to take advantage of it." Yan Xiang stopped, "The top priority is to reorganize the border defense of the city as soon as possible, and I will discuss a proper plan with you in the next two days." ”

"But..." Young Master Yi wanted to say something, but he choked up for a moment.

The court soon returned to its past, and Yan Xiang said that the situation in the hall was cocooned, and he sat on the throne and began to be distracted again.

"Why don't you let me in to see my sister?" Young Master Yi, who had just eaten a soft nail in the court, was being stopped by the guards at this moment, and he was extremely indignant, and the leader of Hong persuaded him on the side: "Young General, we are also guarding here on the orders of the king, and the king has ordered that no one is allowed to enter or leave, and you and us will not solve the problem." ”

"Okay, okay, okay, my father just disappeared, and my sister was locked up in the harem, I want to ask, is this the king's idea or his Yan Xiang's idea?" Young Master Yi can't take care of taboos anymore. Leader Hong had no choice but to give up his hand again: "It's better for the young general to go and ask the king clearly, and we don't have anything to say." Before the words fell, Young Master Yi had already rushed to the Zhong Zheng Palace, far from the former Xuanyu.

"Your Majesty, why did you imprison my sister, and what did she do?" In the study, Yan Xiang was also there, but Young Master Yi didn't seem to see it.

"Young General, Concubine Lan Guifei has not yet sorted out the clue because she was involved in the miscarriage of Mrs. Enchanting, and she caught up with the disappearance of General Riveting, she is emotionally unstable, and the king is doing this to prevent her from doing anything stupid." Yan Xiang didn't care that he deliberately ignored it.

"What does my sister have to do with that woman's miscarriage?! Since she was pregnant, my sister has been taking good care of her, and she wants the king to have her own flesh and blood sooner than anyone else. The more Young Master Yi spoke, the more excited he became.

Looking at the situation, the two parties were about to clash, and hurriedly spoke: "Young General, this matter is still under investigation, don't be impatient, if you are sure that it has nothing to do with Concubine Lan, you should personally take her out of the Xiangdian Palace, and you will never let her be wronged." ”

"Now that she is locked up in the palace alone, she is not only suspicious of the king, but also worried about her father, and I, who is an elder brother, can't even see her, how can she not be wronged?!" Young Master Yi still didn't give up.

"Then according to Young Master Yi's meaning, it doesn't matter if the king's child died in vain? There is evidence that Lan Guifei is suspected of this, and the king doesn't even have the right to investigate? I don't know if the harem is from the king or from your riveting family? Yan Xiang's words were fierce, which made Young Master Yi also startled, the two have been supporting each other for many years, and there has never been a situation of accusing each other, but Young Master Yi has never been so face-brushed, and he will never admit defeat: "It's not my riveting family, is it your Yan Xiang's?!" ”

"Alright," Cocoon hurriedly interrupted, frightened at this, "both are pillars of the country, so why bother with something that has not yet been concluded." "Young Master Yi still had some scruples about the king after all, and quieted down.

But Yan Xiang didn't care about Cocoon's face, and continued: "With the evidence, there must be a conclusion in this matter, if the Riveting family really murdered the royal bloodline, it would not be as simple as confining the matter. ”

"You, you..." Young Master Yi was directly choked.

Cocoon had no choice but to open his mouth again to relieve the siege: "The most important thing now should be how to rectify the border defense and find the general." I don't know if Young Master Yi has a way? "Although Young Master Yi has been living under the halo of his father for many years, he is actually not a mediocre person, and now the riveting family has reached the brink of storms overnight, and he must fight with 120,000 points of spirit to deal with it, at this time he took out the codex that had already been prepared, and after Yan Xiang saw the content clearly, he also felt a little less contemptible, and instructed the internal officials to summon a few ministers of the military department to consult together.

At this time, Young Master Yi could never have imagined that when he saw his sister again, she had become cold and could no longer reply to him.

This is the fifth day since the news of General Riveting's disappearance came, since Lan Guifei knew that she was imprisoned, she didn't speak again, she didn't eat, but she kept sitting in front of the window, looking at the sky cut off by the high walls of the palace, Ling'er was very worried, and she teased her every day, but no matter what she said or did, Lan Guifei looked like she was out of her soul and didn't react.

"Master, why don't you eat a little." Ling'er secretly wiped her tears and continued to persuade, "Didn't the young master come a few days ago, he will definitely find a way to make the king change his mind, you have to take care of your body before you can see the general and the king again." Ling'er knew that now only these two people were the only ones who worried the master.

Concubine Lan still didn't move, and Ling'er could only shake her head and quit.

Born in a family of military generals, she didn't know the dangers of the battlefield, she knew that the general was already fierce and unlucky at this time, in addition to being sad, she was more self-blaming, thinking about her self-willfulness all along, always making him in a dilemma, in order to satisfy her wishes, her father almost exhausted all his efforts and threw the woman into prison, in order to let his daughter suffer less grievances; made meritorious contributions again and again, in order to have the capital to force the king to come and see his daughter more; Even if I went to the border pass temporarily this time, I was afraid that my daughter would be indifferent to the king, so I invited myself.... Yes, everything is for yourself, but what about yourself? But he was obsessively trapped in the love affair with that man, but that man, after all, didn't love himself, and even, he didn't believe in himself, and after getting along for many years, he didn't even know what kind of person he was, or, he didn't want to be clear.

What does it look like out there? When I first saw each other as a teenager, I fell into it all my life, never thinking about anything else, as if I had never seen the world well, and I was never really at ease.

"Ling'er, let's make a bowl of fish maw vermicelli soup with a little more vinegar."

"Good! Good! Coming soon! "Ling'er almost ran in and jumped out, and the master was finally going to eat, which was great.

Soon, the soup came, and Concubine Lan changed into a pale pink robe that she hadn't worn for a long time, sat at the table, and beckoned Ling'er to sit with her.

"Master, how can this be done, it's not in accordance with the rules."

"Okay, when I was in the General's Mansion before, didn't you always accompany me to steal things from the kitchen to eat, and after being in the palace for a long time, are you still alive?"

"No, no, Ling'er has followed her master since she was a child, and she is closer than her relatives, but the rules in the palace are like this."

"Now we can't get out, and people from outside can't come in, so who can show these rules, sit down, I can't finish such a big bowl." Concubine Lan pulled the bell and pressed it on the chair.

"Okay, okay, then listen to the master." "That's right!" Looking at the master, Ling'er suddenly felt that the bright and cheerful second lady of the riveting family, who occasionally mischievous, was back.

"Master, you still wear pink and beautiful, after entering the palace, in order to look solemn, you always wear such a heavy color, and you are old." The memory of mischievous together when I was young made Ling'er speak much more briskly.

"Hmm~ yes, this palace makes me live not like me at all." Concubine Lan said with a faint smile.

The master and servant just said a word, chatting while eating, after eating, Ling'er got up to clean up, Lan Guifei stretched her waist and told Ling'er: "I want to rest and rest, I haven't slept well for a long time, and you don't need to call me before noon tomorrow." Ling'er happily accepted her order and retreated.

The night was deeper, and the wind and chill blowing outside the window were heavier, Lan Guifei stood at the table, studied ink and wrote letters, a total of two, finished writing, rolled up, tied the ribbon, looked at it again, and then knelt in front of the window, facing the direction of the border pass, clasped her hands together, and prayed sincerely. I knelt for half an hour before I got up. He took out a long pink veil from the wardrobe and hung it on the carved beams of the dormitory......

At noon on the second day, a terrible scream broke the tranquility of the harem, and the cocoon rushed into the Tingxiang Palace, and what he saw was Lan Guifei, who was already stiff hanging on the beam, and he suddenly fell to the ground with a soft foot, and the palace officials inside and outside the house also knelt down and cried bitterly when they saw this. Then arrived was the young master Yi in military uniform, he was already ready to go to the border, when he walked to the inner city gate, he suddenly heard the news of his sister hanging, he fell off the horse, and then rushed into the palace with a roll.

Looking at his sister who was already lying peacefully on the bed, Yi knelt on the side of the bed and couldn't say a word, I don't know how long he knelt before he came to his senses slightly, and trembled and took the letter written to him by his sister who was handed over by Gong E:

Brother, forgive my sister for her willfulness, don't be sad, now I have the freedom I want, and you don't need to worry so much anymore. You must find your father, whether you live or die, and then tell him for me, I'm sorry.

Yi clutched his sister's suicide note tightly, muddy, full of his sister's face, smiling, and pouting.... I don't even know how I was helped back to the General's Mansion.

Lan Guifei's funeral, two days later, was held in the Tingxiang Palace, the funeral was compared to the etiquette of the queen's death, a total of three days, the Manchu Dynasty civil and military harem people, except for the dye that has not yet healed, all came to the scene for its vigil, and the whole country was not allowed to fire a cannon to marry for three days... The king was silent in front of the spirit for three days, not eating or drinking, and so was Young Master Yi, with a haggard face, kneeling beside the golden coffin, motionless.

Three days later, Lan Guifei was buried in the royal tomb on the outskirts of the city, and after sending her sister on the last journey, she also packed up her mood, set off again, and went to the border to rectify the defense and military affairs, and at the same time, searching for the news of the general, he took his sister's suicide note with him, as well as Ling'er, who was allowed out of the palace by the king, determined to fulfill his sister's last wish no matter what.

In the Tingxiang Palace, all the palace people have been dismissed to other places, the most lively place in the past, now it is bleak and abnormal, the white silk hanging on the plaque has not been removed, and under the moonlight, it is even more lonely. In the place where Lan Guifei often sat and drank tea, a thin back, her shoulders shaking, seemed to be sobbing, but she didn't make a sound, and she was still holding a letter in her hand:

Cocoon, my name is Lian, for you, I lived as Concubine Lan, and now, I want to be a second lady of the Riveting family, after all, you don't believe in me and don't love me.

I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry....