As soon as Han chased to death, the Liangzhou army, which had long wanted to fight any longer, suddenly scattered, and Yanzhou escaped without danger.

On September 11, a good news reached the Yanzhou capital, and Cui Yi and Zhong Yuanshan joined forces to break through Zizhang City, control the 12 guards of Gyeonggi and more than half of the Korean Chinese military ministers, and the rebellion won a preliminary victory.

This news is undoubtedly an inspiring medicine, and every household in Yanzhou Mansion is decorated with lanterns, firecrackers, and laughter is boiling on the streets, which is more lively than the New Year's Festival. The people who fled and left also returned one after another, began to prepare for the autumn harvest, and the city and outside the city were filled with joy, and everyone's mood was as golden as a wheat wave, as if they had seen a good day ahead.

Xiaoqiu and Langyue had already walked to the foot of Amador Mountain, heard the news that the Liangzhou army had retreated, and rushed back day and night, and finally returned safely the day before yesterday.

According to Cui Yi's instructions, Xu Cheng and Shan Jian returned with 10,000 people to change their guards, and Yang Qiong and Cao Qian escorted Zhiying and others south to return to Beijing.

On the day of departure, everyone got up early in the morning, Zhong Luhuan took Xiao Cui Xian and the Wang family to ride together, and Zhiying took care of Xiao Cui Hao with Cheng Fengyi, the little guy is different from his sister, not very clingy, just give him something to play with himself, and occasionally share his experience with the people around him, woo oh oh oh

It's always boring to ride in the car, so she put her son on the soft quilt, spread out the paper on the low table, and wrote something seriously.

Cheng Fengyi held a book, supported it with one hand, and said lazily: "You won't rest for a while, what are you writing?" ”

Zhiying replied: "Although the prince has conquered the capital, but the emperor's bones have not been found, it is possible that he is still alive, if he escapes from the capital, and then in the name of the Son of Heaven to gather the remnants of Liangzhou, Fengzhou, Bazhou army, back to the water, the victory is still difficult to say." So now we must hold our feet and not let people grab the handle. ”

The carriage drove on the official road, although it was not bumpy, but it was not stable, but the handwriting of the holding profit was beautiful and neat, and it was orderly.

Regarding the officials of the DPRK and China, she advised Cui Yi to "ignore past suspicions and appoint people on the basis of merit", and for the virtuous ministers and good generals who have made meritorious contributions to the army, they should "respect the lord and be generous, and do not have high power"; the harem concubines left behind by Cui Jie, those who have no heirs, "all of them will be returned and married", those who already have children "will sweep the imperial tomb and never return", and their relatives "If there are those who are honored by their daughters, they will be demoted back to their original positions, and then they will be judged by their talents, and they should not be blindly suppressed"......

Zhiying knew that Cui Yi was going to be the emperor next, and it was inconvenient for her to say a lot of things in front of people, otherwise she would be suspected of interfering in the harem and the national style, and the time spent alone by the two would be greatly reduced.

But what she didn't expect was that Cui Yi refused to ascend the throne in tow.

"Accumulating grain, slowly becoming the king, the prince's approach is actually very commendable." When he sat on the sedan chair and entered the palace, Bailizan commented.

After a month's long journey, the late autumn of the withered frost and maple arrived in the capital after a three-year absence, Cui Yi did not have time to pick up, but Bailizan led a guard of honor of nearly 1,000 people to wait outside Zizhang City, and opened the city gate to welcome Zhiying, who is still the princess of Wu and is very likely to become the queen in the future.

Holding Ying got out of the car with his son, kneeling in front of the city gate with a brush all over the palace eunuchs, four soft sedan chairs have been prepared, except for holding Ying is red, embroidered auspicious clouds and flying phoenixes, the remaining three are according to the ritual of the three products of the lady, the selection of ultramarine, the top cover of the gold and black tassels.

Cheng Fengyi returned to her heart like an arrow, looked left and right and didn't see her husband Zhai Rang coming to pick it up, she was very worried in her heart, and she didn't know if there were any unexpected changes, so she pulled Zhiying's sleeve and said, "Zhiying, I'...... I want to go home and check it out. ”

Are the elderly father and young daughter safe and sound, and the husband who endured the pain of parting from him, what is the appearance now? Zhai Rang was not in the crowd to greet her, which made her feel uneasy, and she couldn't help but have all kinds of cranky thoughts in her heart, and she couldn't wait to go back and see what was going on.

Zhiying didn't know, and just wanted to nod, Bailizan said: "Mrs. Cheng, the prince has sent someone to Cheng's mansion to invite people, Mrs. Cheng should be able to reunite with her family when she enters the palace now, otherwise it will not be good if she goes wrong." ”

As soon as Cheng Fengyi heard that Cui Yi had already made arrangements, she felt a little more relieved and nodded: "Okay then." ”

Several people sat on the soft sedan chair, Zhiying's sedan chair naturally walked in the front, Bailizan according to Cui Yi's instructions, and explained all kinds of matters after entering the capital, Zhiying held his sleeping son in his arms and patted gently, nodding while listening, when Bailizan said that Cui Yi refused to ascend the throne, she was surprised: "Why not ascend the throne?" ”

Bailizan smiled and asked, "What does Madam think?" ”

Zhiying frowned ambiguously, and Bailizan said: "Madame's move to break the cauldron seems to be a bit too much, the Ministry of Rites has mentioned the matter of ascending the throne several times, but the prince has blocked it back, and the prince is now in a state of timidity and hesitation, has Madame figured out how to end it?" ”

It's good that he didn't mention it, but he had a headache when he mentioned Zhiying: "I didn't think about it so much at the time, the prince is a person with a long love affair and a heroic shortness of breath, you don't know this, I'm afraid that he will give up the low-hanging victory on an impulse, so I made this decision......"

"I'm afraid that Madame's words are not all against her will, right?"

Zhiying was stunned.

"Madame is not an ordinary person, this point has been convinced for many years, but whether Madame is a fairy or anything else, it is always different from us," Baili Zan, sighed, "The prince is a concubine, if you don't say it, you can still be confused, once you say it, you will inevitably suffer from gains and losses, Madame said that the day the prince ascends to the throne will be successful, didn't you ever expect that the prince would refuse to ascend the throne because of this?" ”

Holding Ying raised his forehead and said: "I really didn't expect ......"

Bailizan asked again: "Forgive me for trespassing, ask Madame, is Madame really leaving?" ”

Holding Ying can't answer. When she said those words, the situation was very serious, but as Bailizan said, her words were not completely against her will, but for the purpose of provoking Cui Yi - not to leave, but from the moment she opened her eyes on the bed in the carved building, she had been wondering and fearing, why did she come back from the dead, will there be an end to such a rebirth, and one day in the future, she still has to die?

"If Madame doesn't want to say it, it's okay, in fact, there is another matter at the moment, I want to ask Madame to have an idea." Bailizan couldn't hear her answer, so he understood and changed the subject.

"What's the matter?"

Bailizan bent down slightly, approached the side window of the soft sedan car, and whispered, "Cheng Lao is gone." ”

Zhiying let out an "ah", not very surprised, Bailizan asked suspiciously: "Madame is not surprised?" "No, when I came back with the prince last year, Cheng Lao was already very sick, and the elderly people have been ill for a long time, and it is normal to be gone."

Bailizan smacked his tongue and said, "Cheng Lao didn't die of illness, he died of poison." ”

Zhiying was so shocked that she almost stood up in the sedan chair: "What did you say?!" ”

"It's true, it was Zicheng who told me personally," Baili Zan glanced at the back with jealousy, fortunately, the person who followed behind Zhiying's sedan chair was Zhong Luhuan, Cheng Fengyi shouldn't have heard the exclamation that Zhiying blurted out just now, "Cheng Lao designed to deceive Guo Ziyan in order to cover you out of the city, and he knew that he would definitely die, so he asked Zicheng to take the child back to Gong County, and committed suicide by taking poison at home." ”

Zhiying was dizzy in front of him, almost collapsed in the sedan chair, and said incoherently: "How can this be...... How could this be, Cheng Lao...... This...... We...... The prince ......"

Baili Zan sighed: "The prince also entered the capital before he knew that Cheng Lao had already passed away, we all thought that Cheng Lao was old, and he was sick, and it was not strange to go, who knew that the day before yesterday the prince took me to Gong County to pick up Zicheng's father and daughter to meet Mrs. Cheng, Zicheng heard that his wife was back, and he knelt in front of me. ”

Zhiying still couldn't believe what he heard, and confirmed to Bailizan again: "Cheng Lao really died of poison by himself, not by the emperor?" Just like the Three Princes. ”

Bailizan shook his head outside the curtain: "Zicheng said that when he sent you to Gong County, and then returned home, Cheng Lao had already taken the poison, explained a few words about the aftermath, and passed away suddenly." ”

Zhiying took a deep breath, her nasal cavity was sour, and she couldn't help but hug Xiao Cui Hao tightly, and bent down: "Oh my God...... How could this happen, and how much do we owe them to father and daughter...... How much is a ......?"

Bailizan was silent for a moment, and then said, "There is one more thing. ”

"What else?" Zhiying has been hit into a bit of a trance, and almost feels that there will be nothing more palpitating and guilty than this.

At this moment of speaking, the sedan chair had arrived at the gate of the palace, and the newly promoted chief of the inner hall pinched the orchid finger and shook off the dust, and said sharply: "The queen mother is back to the palace!" In front of the palace gate, there were palace maids, eunuchs and guards kneeling on the ground.

Holding Ying lifted the sedan curtain and looked ahead, only to see the majestic and majestic gate of the forbidden palace standing in front of him, the golden glazed tiles reflecting the blue sky, as if a reincarnation, after ten years, he once again stepped into this golden cage as a quasi-queen.

The palace people shouted "Welcome to the queen, the queen is a thousand years old, a thousand years old", and the sound was like a tide, one after another, almost drowning everything around.

However, even in the midst of such a boiling noise, she still heard Bailizan's sentence-

"Zicheng...... He has been remarried. ”