Out of the Jinnian Palace, the autumn wind blew, bringing a sudden coolness, Jinyan tightened the cloak on his body, and there was a kind of eventful sadness in his heart.

The mother emperor is right, if you are watched by people all day long, you really can't sleep well. If the Empress Dowager of Northern Qin does not take revenge, she may not give up. Day after day, year after year, you don't know when and how she will make a move, and in the long run, it will become a hidden worry.

This is not a hidden worry of Zhan Guijun, this is the hidden worry of the entire Beiluo, because the supreme ruler of Beiqin, who lives next to Beiluo, is a Northern Qin Empress Dowager who has an enmity with Beiluo!

Jin Yan suddenly thought of the little emperor of Northern Qin, how could he beg himself to repay this favor?

And the top priority is to find out the matter clearly, where is there a reason to swallow your anger if you are bullied, she is the empress, her family and the people, who does she not protect! And with ironclad evidence in hand, it is good to seek justice! Thinking of this, Jin Yan sat on the sedan chair and left the palace in the deep night.

The Hidden Guard, as the name suggests, is a force that hides in the shadows. This is the personal guard of the Beiluo Empress in the past dynasties, no one knows where these people came from, where, how many, only knows that such an immeasurable force is only subordinate to the imperial power.

In the dark room, Jin Yan sat in front of the desk, and there was a young man in a black power suit standing opposite, he kept his head down, he couldn't see his face clearly, if there was an expert present, he would definitely be able to perceive the extraordinaryness of this person from the aura around him.

After listening to the details of the hidden guard just now, Jin Yan couldn't help but be a little afraid, if she hadn't secretly kept her back hand, those assassins would have succeeded tonight.

There are not many guards guarding the Jinnian Palace, Zhan Nian himself is also extraordinary, and those hidden guards are even more one in a million, but when there are so many losses, Zhan Nian is still injured. The strength of these assassins is so strong, the Empress Dowager of Northern Qin has made such a bloody investment!

Not only that, but the timing of the assassination was just right, and even the terrain was accurate. The whole process is ruthless enough! Fast enough! Accurate enough! What kind of preparation was made, she couldn't help but be impressed by the Empress Dowager of Northern Qin.

Although Jin Yan had already decided in her heart that it must have been the Empress Dowager of Northern Qin, the evidence was the point, so after a little contemplation, she continued to ask, "Do you know the origin of these assassins?" ”

"Your Majesty, on the surface, these assassins do not have any particularly obvious marks on their bodies, and their attire, weapons, and even appearance are extremely ordinary, so it is impossible to determine where they came from."

Jin Yan was not surprised when she heard it, no matter how stupid the Empress Dowager of Northern Qin was, she would not leave a handle for others to handle!

The hidden guard continued, "It's just that the assassin inadvertently said something during the fight, and we all recognized it when we heard it, and there was a word in that sentence that was in the Northern Qin dialect. ”

Jin Yan nodded and motioned to continue.

"But ......"

The guard hesitated, swallowed, and continued, "While we were disposing of the corpse, an assassin's shoe fell off, and the insole was red. ”

Jin Yan was stunned, Northern Qin is still white, disgusted with red! Why are the insoles red?

The hidden guard quietly raised his eyes to look at Jin Yan, and seeing that he was puzzled, he continued, "The Bauhinia ...... shown on the insole"

He didn't say anything further, but Jin Yan understood that the bauhinia flower was a unique flower in Nanqian, representing his mother's thoughts......

Nangan? Should it be enlightened? Is it related to you?

The result was so unexpected, Jin Yan was a little confused, and then she began to comfort herself constantly, the words mixed with dialects must be the flaws that the Empress Dowager of Northern Qin deliberately ordered to be exposed, and the insoles embroidered with bauhinia flowers were her real intentions, and the purpose was to blame Nan Qian.

But......

But why did she want to blame Nan Qian, did she want to make their husband and wife discordant? Do you want Beiluo and Nanqian to break up? Right! It must be like this, Jin Yan, who found a reason, breathed a sigh of relief.

But......

If it weren't for all the assassins, if it weren't for the careful thinking of the hidden guards, how could they see the falling Bauhinia insole?!

What's even more terrifying is that Jin Yan thought that if someone with a heart linked these two flaws, would he think that the queen colluded with Northern Qin and intended to rebel!

This answer is so frightening! Jin Yan's heart was already beating just thinking about it.

She believes in Ying Qi, but if it really comes to such a point, how can she block the mouths of the people, how can she be angry with the people, and how can she fix the country? Does she still have the ability to protect her?!

All the clues and results were like a tighter and tighter mess in Jin Yan's mind, which made her hurt and suffocated!

There was silence in the room, and after a long time, Jin Yan stared at the hidden guard and asked in a deep voice, "Who else has seen it!" ”

"Only, just a few of us."

In a word, the hidden guard was already in a cold sweat, and His Majesty's gaze was too deep, which he had never seen before.

"A few of you have heard clearly, today's matter is over, I will settle accounts with the Empress Dowager of Northern Qin about the assassination of your monarch, if I hear a little rumor, you will die together!"

After the guard retreated, only Jinyan was left in the dark room, and she sat on a chair in a dejected manner, like a puppet that had lost its traction.

The night passed bit by bit, and when Jin Yan came out of the dark room, his eyes were already firm.

It's just that, Zhan Nian, I'm going to lose my trust with you again......

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Splendid Palace

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Ying Qi didn't ask anything about Jinyan's failure to return all night, many times, they had a tacit understanding, they would never ask if they couldn't answer, and they would never mention what would hurt their feelings.

The assassination failed, although it was a pity, and it was even very likely to leave hidden dangers, but Ying Qi did not regret it, he just felt that some people were too lucky, and he didn't have such a good opportunity.

It's like a hibernating snake in a tree hole, so quiet, so harmless, but in the spring, it will wake up eventually, and this spring is not far off.

Another sleepless night.

Jin Yan and Ying Qi still hugged each other and fell asleep, but their two hearts flew to different places.

In the thick darkness, Jin Yan asked, "Ying Qi, is it that I don't love you enough?" ”

This question was unusual, Ying Qi didn't know how to answer, so he simply remained silent.

Jin Yan asked again: "Ying Qi, if one day, you must choose one of the jade crushed and the tile, how do you choose?" ”

This time, Ying Qi did not hesitate, "I choose jade crushing!" ”

Nothing was said all night.

After this night, Ying Qi found that Jin Yan treated him better and more meticulously than before. If she used to go out for a walk alone, but now she spends all her leisure time with herself, she blindly indulges herself, everything he says is good, everything he does is good, and even becomes cautious when she is coquettish with him.

He finally waited for the Jin Yan whose eyes were full of him, but he was suddenly scared when he was supposed to be very happy, such a Ayan He looked strange and distressed.

At the same time, your Jinnian Palace is constantly rewarded every day, giving whatever is good and what is rare, but Jinyan has never visited again.

Winter in Beilo has ushered in two heavy snowfalls, and this year seems to be a little colder than usual.

The assassination of Guijun passed with such a thunderous and small rain, and those rumors about the queen's fertility gradually dissipated under Jinyan's strong pressure, but in the end, it made Jinyan pay attention to the issue of heirs.

The Splendid Hall began to have all kinds of people coming in and out frequently. At first, he was the imperial doctor in the palace, and later he was a folk Langzhong, and even a wandering doctor who wandered the world, but in the end he came to a conclusion that made Jin Yan speechless.

There's nothing wrong with either of them, they just don't have an heir.

How ridiculous this sounded to Ying Qi, how could there be such a thing!

They are in good health and loving to them, but they don't have the fate to have children, how ridiculous!

However, listening to the hearts of others is convinced. There are no wonders in the world, and there are indeed such husbands and wives in the people, no matter how hard they work together there is no result, but after they leave, they can be full of children and grandchildren with others!

If the rumors last time were false, they were fueled by people with intentions, but this time it is something that can't be suppressed if you really want to!

If the empress has no heirs, it will inevitably make those gate lords have delusions and compete for the position of empress at any cost. At that time, all kinds of forces will be divided, tilting against each other, and Beiluo will continue to fight, and it will become a state of fragmentation, the country will not be a country, and the people will not be a people!

A better result, one side will win the throne in the end, and it will be able to stabilize the political situation in Beiluo with a thunderous momentum and relieve the people from danger, and that's it.

However, the mother-honored North Luoben is an outlier on the land of Kyushu, how difficult it is to survive, if there is continuous civil strife and strife, it is to give others an opportunity to take advantage of it, and it will attract the division and annexation of the jackals of all countries, then the only matrilineal regime in the land of Kyushu will no longer exist and completely disappear!

Therefore, the issue of the empress's heirs stirred the nerves of everyone in Beiluo, and they couldn't accept the result that Beiluo might have no heirs, and it wasn't that the empress had a problem, but that she had a problem with the queen, and the solution to this problem was so simple.

For a time, the people's grievances were boiling, and hundreds of officials asked the empress to think about the society and open up her path, and asked the queen to think about the empress and open her mind!

The situation has taken a sharp turn to the point where it is now, and Ying Qi was unexpected, but he gradually understood that now he is standing on the opposite side of the entire Beiluo.

If he answers, he is still a queen.

If he doesn't, he will be the enemy of the whole of Beiluo!

However, neither Jinyan nor Ying Qi ever talked about this matter, and only once did Ying Qi ask, "Are you willing to give up this throne and return to Nanqian with me?" ”

Jin Yan shook his head.

should be enlightened.

He also knew very well in his heart that it must be this answer, that throne was her family and country, and it was her responsibility.

He remembered what Jin Yan asked him again, jade shatter and tile whole, he could only choose one of them.

He will still answer: Broken jade!

This winter became their hardest winter.