Li Yi turned around and saw that the Empress Dowager De's face had regained her former composure, and she asked with an amiable smile:

"Does King Ding have a favorite girl?"

Li Yi smiled slightly: "Why did the queen mother suddenly ask about this?" ”

Empress Dowager De sighed: "How can a mother not care about her children? Although you and your imperial brother are not born to this palace, this palace has always regarded you as its own! In this palace, in my heart, I always remember—"

Li Yi saw her mention the past, and thought of a set of usual tricks, "one complains, two sensational, and three forcible demands", and hurriedly stopped: "You and the imperial brother have promised not to interfere in the king's private affairs again!" ”

Since Li Yi returned from the battlefield that year, the Empress Dowager De has been in love with him, and she has vaguely added some fear, seeing him calling himself "this king", knowing that he is angry, he does not dare to be tough, and said with a dry smile: "Look, as soon as I talk about this, I am in a hurry!" The queen mother just mentioned it casually, and she didn't mean to force you to marry a concubine. ”

Li Yi saw that she let go of this matter, and he was also relieved, and his tone eased unconsciously, and said: "The queen mother's kindness to our brother should always be remembered by the son!" ”

Empress Dowager De sighed and said, "It's good that you can understand the hard work of the queen mother!" ”

Li Yi asked, "Queen Mother, do you have any other instructions?" ”

Empress Dowager De patted her head: "Oh, by the way, I almost forgot about business!" When people get older, their heads become a mess of paste, and they don't shine! ”

She searched for a long time before she took out a folded note from a scroll of scriptures and handed it to Li Yi:

"If you have time to go to your imperial sister-in-law, the hundred flowers will be related to the royal face, you can discuss it and give her a reminder of everything! I'm really not at ease if I leave it to her to do it herself! Bring this to her too! ”

"Hundred Flowers?" Li Yi was surprised.

"Yes, this is the traditional banquet of Hong Yanguo. A few years ago, because of your imperial brother's immortal departure, it was delayed, and it was time to hold it again! Speaking of which, this palace and your queen mother met at the Hundred Flowers Meeting! She was dressed in red, and she was as beautiful as a fairy in the Netherworld! Hongu was in a trance at that time, thinking that there would be such a stunning woman in the world! Who would have thought that our destinies would be entangled in the future. The Empress Dowager was immersed in the past, with a smile in the corner of her eyes.

"It's the queen's luck to get to know you!" Li Yi sighed.

Empress Dowager De waved her hand: "Go!" This palace is old, and I can't take care of so many things, so I'll leave the rest to you! ”

Li Yi knew that she was sulking because of the matter of marrying a concubine, but in this matter, he couldn't make a compromise, sighed secretly, and said respectfully: "Take care of your body!" Erchen, retire! ”

Looking at Li Yi's departing figure, Empress Dowager De bowed in the direction of the royal ancestral hall and said, "First Emperor, Sister Liu, for the marriage of King Ding, this palace has tried its best, but there is nothing that can be done!" He meets in the dark, don't blame me! I hope that at the Hundred Flowers Meeting, there will be a woman in his eyes! ”

After a long time, she got up and looked at the brocade box on the table, opened it gently, and there were more than a dozen white pills neatly placed inside, exuding a refreshing medicinal fragrance, and she seemed to see them when they were young again:

At that time, she had just entered the palace, she was innocent, deeply loved by the emperor, her noble status, and her life of fine clothes and food made her feel that she was the happiest woman in the world.

It was a sunny spring, she took the palace maid to play in the back garden, a gust of wind blew off the kite in her hand, the paper butterfly fell in front of him, he bent down to pick it up, and said with a gentle smile: "But yours?" ”

She only felt that the heavens and the earth had become more gorgeous because of his smile.

She took the kite in a trance, and her ears could not hear what he was saying.

Some people, just one look, take a lifetime to forget!

She asked around like crazy, knowing that his name was Su Jin, the emperor's sworn brother-in-law, and knowing that he had a beloved fiancée, reason told her that she should rein in the precipice and kill the thoughts that she shouldn't have, but the wanton crazy thoughts in her heart overwhelmed her.

Since then, she has begun to resist the intimacy of the emperor and shrunk herself in an inconspicuous corner, hoping that time can slowly digest and corrode this unrequited love that cannot come true.

Heaven always likes to make jokes that make people unavoidable.

Just when she thought it was over, Liu Guifei's deathbed made him re-enter her life.

When King Ding was young, his body was weak, and he was skilled in medicine, and he visited her palace almost every day.

He seemed to have long forgotten that he had seen her, and occasionally he would only nod his head, and the emperor authorized him not to give anyone a big gift.

He is still unmarried, and the fire of love in her heart that is about to be extinguished, and with the increase in the number of meetings, it is blazing and out of control!

On the night of the accident, the emperor and queen held a banquet in the palace, and they both drank a lot of wine and met in the back garden.

Catalyzed by alcohol, she dared to throw herself into his arms and tell about lovesickness.

He didn't push her away.

Later, his fiancée, Miss Yi'er, how she bumped into them embracing them, and how she returned to her palace, she can't remember clearly!

Afterwards, Yi'er, who was seriously ill, left alone, and when he went to great lengths to find her, she had already died.

A line of tears, dripping down the cheeks of the Empress Dowager De, the past, it is really in the past...

Li Yi pinched the note and walked out of Fushou Palace, thinking as he walked.

The Queen Mother, his imperial sister-in-law, should have been a figure he respected! He'd been doing it before.

But in the past two years, this imperial sister-in-law asked her son Li Bai to pass Li Yi some inexplicable graffiti notes to Li Yi, the content of which was obscure and difficult to understand.

But in front of the Queen Mother, it was inconvenient for him to refuse, so he had to take the note.

Looking around left and right, he saw a few little eunuchs pruning flowers and plants from a distance, beckoned, and a little eunuch saw it and hurriedly ran over.

Li Yi handed him the note and instructed: "The Empress Dowager's decree will be sent to Cining Palace, and the Empress Dowager will be sent to the Empress Dowager to let the Empress Dowager immediately start preparing for the Hundred Flowers Society!" ”

The little eunuch received the order and trotted in the direction of Cining Palace.

Li Yi walked in the opposite direction.

Turn a bamboo forest, you will arrive at the hundred gardens, the courtyard wall is specially made of hollow bricks, you can see the scenery of the garden outside the courtyard, smell the fragrance of flowers.

Li Yi walked aimlessly along the outer courtyard wall of the Hundred Gardens and along the winding jade paths, and his longing for the imperial brother evoked by the light cloud veil was still brewing and fermenting.

Through the courtyard wall, he seemed to see the benevolent and amiable imperial brother again, hugging the beauty left and right, and said to him: "Yi'er, come and pour the wine for your brother!" ”

The emperor's brother is seven years older than him, but he loves him like a father, he has always called him "Yi'er", in his eyes, leading thousands of troops and horses to gallop on the battlefield, making the enemy country fearful, Dingwang will always be a young brother who does not grow up and needs to be cared for.

That year, the country invaded the frontier of Hongyan, Hongyan suffered repeated defeats, Li Yi asked for orders to lead the troops to the battle, the imperial brother did not agree, he was young and vigorous, he took the fake appointment edict, sneaked out of the imperial city with more than a dozen guards, and went to the battlefield.

When the royal brother learned about it, he followed him overnight in spite of everything.

Just in time for the two armies to start the war, Li Yi with his enthusiasm, with this small team of men and horses to join the fight, after a day and a night of nine deaths, he relied on his outstanding military talent, set up a surprise attack on the enemy's rear, and finally turned the tide and won a complete victory.

When he returned triumphantly and saw the royal brother who appeared in the military tent, he was as resolute as him and shed tears.

That night, there was a big celebration banquet, and the brothers chatted all night.

The next day, Li Shen returned to the imperial city, and Li Yi stayed on the frontier.

Since then, Li Shen, the Hongyan Emperor who has never believed in ghosts and gods, will sincerely clean his hands and burn incense every day.

Li Yi paced slowly, still indulging in the sadness of remembering his deceased brother, only to hear a faint whisper coming from the front.

I only heard one person say: "Have you noticed that since the Queen Mother has recovered from her illness this time, the whole person has changed!" ”

Someone immediately chimed in: "No, in the past, just because we were sick, we had to be stripped of our skin, but you see, the Queen Mother woke up and didn't mention it at all, and I didn't see any punishment!" ”

"I don't remember! Before, at any time and time around me, there must not be at least ten or eight waiting, look at now, I don't like people around me, but I want to do everything myself, it's weird! ”

"Even the rose oil that I used to like to rub my favorite anymore is no longer touched!"

Then you and I.

"Not only that, but the taste has also changed, last time the imperial dining room made the mother's favorite sweet bun, I saw with my own eyes that it was returned without moving at all!"

"The Queen Mother also ordered me to put away her favorite gold and silver jewelry, only picked a few jade hairpins and inserted them in her hair, and changed her clothes into plain ones!"

"Could it be? The Queen Mother was transferred, isn't this the master we used to serve?! ”

"It's... Probably not! ”

"Hide from the world, steal beams and change pillars? Changing the Queen Mother is not a trivial matter, once it is discovered, the Nine Clans will still be light! ”

"The guards inside and outside this palace are guarded layer by layer, and even a fly can't get out, let alone a big living person?"

"That's right!"

"Then how do you explain these strange behaviors of the Queen Mother?"

"In my opinion, the Queen Mother was not replaced, but possessed by a demon and sucked her soul!"

"Enchanted? What do you mean by that? ”

"Do you think, is Niangniang's illness this time caused by sleeping in this hundred gardens? After the mother recovers, don't you go straight to the hundred gardens again? ”

"What do you mean?"

"That's right! Niangniang must have been changed by the flower demon! ”

"But no, no!"

That makes sense! No matter how many guards there are, they can't control the goblins, the flower demons come and go without a trace, and it's easy to occupy people's bodies!

Just when they were still secretly shocked and frightened, and at the same time excited about the explosive news, the little fourth son who was leaning on the wall of the garden suddenly turned pale as if he had seen a ghost.

Everyone followed his gaze, only to see King Ding appear behind them at some point, looking at them with a sneer.

This master, who has killed countless enemies on the battlefield, is like a god in the hearts of the people of Hongyan and a bloody rakshasa.

The frightened palace people, with white faces, stupidly watched King Ding walk into the Baicao Garden, and the Queen Mother's edict of "no one is allowed to come in" has long been forgotten by the collective.