Yao Jin stood on the palace road outside the gate of Guanghua Palace, looking up at the sky, the blue of early autumn seemed to have been exhausted during the day, leaving some gray-white scattered clouds wandering in the gray-blue sky, as the sun sank, it was gradually moving westward weakly. Yao Jin looked at the thin clouds that were about to disappear, as if they were also looking at her with compassion, and said to her in a hoarse voice before they were about to break and disappear...... You're almost there, too......

I'm too, almost.

Yao Jin lowered his head and glanced at the peach-colored wide-sleeved dress full of butterflies on his body, which was dazzling and a little dazzling, from color to pattern to style, it was her least favorite category, but when the people from the Shangyi Bureau sent it, they said, this is the uniform of today's banquet, please wear it to attend. Of course, Yao Jin understands that the word "please" is just a scene, and the slight contempt and indifference in the words are the same as the eyes of most people in the palace today.

When Zixiang put on makeup and changed her clothes, when she looked at herself in the bronze mirror, at that moment Yao Jin suddenly remembered that back then, when she was still the invincible princess of the Li Dynasty, wearing a light and luxurious feather gauze dress, wearing a golden crown, and a long tassel of steps, striding forward with her head held high, laughing with Long Wan, Yang Ying and Lin Yuebai, and briskly going to the luncheon held in the Guanghua Hall to welcome the three princes of Fujian. At that time, although she did not know the future of her, she could laugh heartily, and at that time, she was so naïve and immature, she did not know that fate had already put heavy shackles on every period of her future, and that the short-lived joy at that time was only for the sake of the cinnabar mole that would remain in her heart as a memory for the long years to come.

"Your Highness, the hour is not early," although Zixiang couldn't bear it, he still reminded in a low voice: "At this hour, the guests in the Guanghua Palace must have arrived, I heard that the queen mother has already gone, and Your Majesty and Wei Shugui have been in for a while." Your Highness, I am waiting for you. ”

"Got it. Yao Jin took a deep breath, looked up and said, "Let's go in—"

Before the words fell, suddenly a mournful shout came from far away from the gate of the Guanghua Palace, it was a young woman's voice, it seemed to shout the word "Niangniang", but the voice was really a little unreal, as if it came from a little far away, with a trace of echo, and was quickly muffled, and suddenly disappeared into the silence. Yao Jin and Xuannu glanced at each other suspiciously, and Zixiang immediately stepped forward and shook Yao Jin's hand: "Your Highness, you better go to the main hall first! This voice came from the east, and the slave maid will go and have a look!"

"This voice is a little familiar, but I can't remember who it is!" Yao Jin was a little impatient for no reason, pushed away Zixiang's hand and strode into the palace gate of Guanghua Palace, and walked a few steps, but saw that on the palace road, on the side hall and the high platform and other places, there was no figure in the huge place. The three of them were all in their hearts, and they were about to find the direction of the sound, when they suddenly saw a little palace maid running over from the opposite side in a panic, Zixiang hurriedly grabbed her:

"What's wrong? Why can't anyone in the palace see it?"

"Gao, Gaotai - the emperor, the queen mother-" The little palace maid panted and pointed in the direction of the high platform, "The queen mother is on the high platform, and the slaves and maids are ordered by Duke Nan to go over!"

“...... What!"

The high platform of Guanghua Hall was the highest place to enjoy the scenery in the palace of the Li Dynasty earlier, and it was built in Guanghua Hall at the beginning, and it was also convenient for foreign countries to come to the high platform to have a glimpse of the scenery of the imperial city when they came to drink and feast, showing the meaning of the prosperity of the capital. Although there was a gilded platform and a double tang tower was built later, it is still one of the few highlands in the entire Li Dynasty palace. Yao Jintong had only been there once when she was a female official of the Zichen Palace, but it was cold in winter at that time, and she only felt that it was really boring to feel that the place was cold and bare, but what was Lin Yuebai going there to do today? She was a dignified Empress of the Li Dynasty, and she was not sitting in the main hall of the Guanghua Hall on the night of the banquet, what did she do on the high platform! Yao Jin's heart couldn't stop falling downward, and he also ran wildly all the way under his feet, until the three of them reached the front of the high platform, only to see a bunch of palace maids and eunuchs standing under the tower-like high platform, Wei Nanyan accompanied Li Yao to stand in the middle, and everyone's eyes were looking in the same direction-

The high platform made of blue bricks and stones, lonely and silent, its blue-gray color is gradually swallowed up by the dark sky, like a brave warrior who is dying of tragedy, looking at the land helplessly. And Lin Yuebai, who was dressed in white, was on that high platform, she seemed to be clinging to the edge of the railing, standing facing forward, the wind kept blowing her skirt and long sleeves, but she was motionless, like a tall pine, like a late-blooming lotus, lonely and beautiful.

"Yuebai!" Yao Jin rushed into the crowd at once, she couldn't push through the layers of crowds, so she had to shout desperately: "Yuebai, what are you doing, you come down, you come down-"

"Drag Li Yaojin out! Don't let her come!" Yao Jin finally squeezed a few steps forward, and suddenly heard Li Yao's order, and then several forbidden soldiers who came out of nowhere rushed up to stop her, Zixiang and Xuannu saw that they were going to make a move, and hurriedly stopped them:

"Presumptuous!"

"Don't do anything to Her Royal Highness the eldest princess!"

At this time, Yao Jin still cared about these things in front of her, she only felt a burst of inexplicable fear attacking, staring at Lin Yuebai on the high platform and couldn't help shouting: "Yuebai, you come down!

And Li Yao's face was already angry that could not be concealed, he saw that Yao Jin was still shouting not far away, and his sharp eyes swept over Ying Tang next to him: "Don't drag her down yet!"

Ying Tang was startled, and was about to answer, but Ah Meng, who was red at the corner of his mouth, crawled over with difficulty, grabbed the corner of Ying Tang's clothes tightly, and kept muttering: "No, no, Your Majesty! If Niang Niang sees the eldest princess being dragged down, she, she will do something stupid! No, Your Majesty!"

Hearing this, Li Yao raised his foot and kicked Ah Meng, this time it was extremely heavy, Ah Meng suddenly vomited a mouthful of blood and fell to the ground, she couldn't get up at once, she could only lie at Ying Tang's feet weakly, and gasped: "Your Majesty, even if you kick the slave to death, Niangniang's mind will not change! If you don't let the eldest princess leave today, Niangniang - she will really jump down!"

At this time, another guard escorted Ayuan, who was tied up by five flowers, and squeezed in from the crowd: "Your Majesty, I found this palace maid fainting in the Yongyang Palace, and she has just woken her up!"

"Let her talk!"

"Yes!"

As soon as the guard pulled the strip of cloth from Ayuan's mouth, she shouted in horror: "Your Majesty! Your Majesty! Niangniang is poisoned! Niangniang is poisoned! The incense in the incense burner is poisonous! Niangniang, she vomited blood—save Niangniang, Your Majesty!"

"What are you talking about!" Li Yao's face turned pale, he looked up in the direction where Lin Yuebai was, his heart was anxious and angry, and finally said loudly: "Empress, what do you want!"