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Rong Jinyu thought of the demon-like man, remembered the elf-like snow, sighed softly, and said, "I haven't seen them for a long time, and I don't know what happened to them." β
Sapphire?!
"Don't look at me like that," Yan Li chuckled, "I just want to do this, but where can I find such a bug?" However, when we first saw Lan Yu, we could ask him for it, maybe he would have it in his hand. β
Rong Jin looked at Yan Li with a "you are so vicious" gaze.
Yan Li smiled, "My mother once told me that there is a small insect called a cricket, this kind of insect likes to lay eggs in human ears, and the eggs will eventually become larvae and burrow into the human brain, eat the human brain stem, and force people to go crazy. β
"What's the method?" Rong Jin asked.
"However, there is a more direct way to get to the point."
Rong Jin looked at Yan Li, "But what?" β
Yan Li picked the corners of his mouth disapprovingly, and said lightly: "It's also smart, this kind of technique can not only escape the eyes of the imperial doctor, but also have time for Wei Shili to slowly transition power!" But ......"
"Well, a chronic poison." Rong Jin said softly.
Rong Jin had a feeling of being speechless, did she want to let her sue Young Master SΓΉ Yan, this is a medicine that makes men indulge in beauty?
It's for men, and you know what it is!
What is it?
"Infinite Dan?" Yan Li raised his eyebrows, "What's that?" β
Rong Jin thought about it, and reorganized what Concubine Li said to her in his heart, and then slowly spoke: "The queen mother wants to give the emperor Wuji Dan through GuΓ² Heling's hand. β
Yan Li picks her eyes, Queen Wei summons Concubine Li, this shouldn't be a rare thing in the palace, right? But when he thought about what they were planning, he couldn't help but tighten his pupils, and asked in a deep voice, "But what happened?" β
"Yesterday, a queen summoned Concubine Li." Rong Jin said.
Rong Jin gave Xingyu a look, Xingyu turned around and retreated, and stayed by the door with Xinghua, and Rong Jin said softly.
"What's the matter?" Yan Li couldn't help but ask suspiciously.
"By the way, there is one thing, you don't know yet, I just got the news, take advantage of this moment, let me tell you, you have an idea."
Rong Jin sighed, but his thoughts turned and he suddenly remembered something.
"The husband is not guilty, but he is guilty." Yan Li raised his eyebrows and said coldly, paused, but smiled self-deprecatingly, "Perhaps, we are the destiny of the Heavenly Evil Lone Star!" β
"I'm thinking, you and I are not heinous people, why are so many people having trouble with us?" Rong Jin said softly.
Seeing that Rong Jin was silent, Yan Li smiled and asked softly, "Why didn't you suddenly speak?" β
Rong Jin couldn't help but be silent when he heard this.
"I want to leave tomorrow, but I'm afraid, but someone won't let us go." Yan Li said.
Leaning slightly, Fang opened his mouth and asked, "The jade seal has also been offered, when do you plan to leave?" β
Rong Jin smiled, picked up the teacup, and drank it himself.
Yan Li took it with a smile, but he didn't put it to his mouth, but put the tea cup aside, and said to Rong Jin, who looked at her: "I filled a stomach full of water in the imperial study, and I will drink this tea later." β
Rong Jin handed over the hot and cold teacup in his hand, "Drink tea." β
Changfang Palace.
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Xiao Chengzi suddenly breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly followed.
Fortunately, Yan Ke did not continue to ask, but waved his hand decisively and said, "Okay, let's go." β
If he said "yes", he must not have heard it from Xinmuna with his own ears, but if he said "no", wouldn't that mean that he was deceiving His Highness?
"This ......" Xiao Chengzi hesitated for a moment and did not know how to answer.
Yan Ke looked back at Xiao Chengzi, whose eyebrows drooped slightly, "That means that these words are likely to come from Xin Mu?" β
"If you go back to Your Highness, Laixi and Xin Mu entered the palace in the same year, and it is said that the two are from the same place." Xiao Chengzi thought for a while, and then said: "Moreover, I heard that Gonggong Tong was willing to accept Xin Mu as an apprentice back then, and he was very happy to make a difference. β
"You said that Laixi and Xinmu are very good?"
After a long time, just when Xiaochengzi was trembling and didn't know what to do, Yan Ke's voice sounded above his head again.
Yan Ke was silent.
Xiao Chengzi hurriedly repeated what he had inquired about before.
"Tell His Highness again, what did Lai Xi say?" Yan Ke said.
Yan Ke's voice fell, and among the palace people behind him, a little eunuch about sixteen or seventeen years old immediately walked out, "The slave is here." β
"Little town."
He didn't make a sound, and the palace people behind him didn't dare to make a sound, and they all stood there with bated breath.
He stood in the empty square outside the Jiaofang Palace, his eyes fell faintly in the direction of the Mingguang Palace, and he was speechless for a long time.
It's just that as soon as he got out of the Jiaofang Palace, the gentleness on his face became gloomy in an instant.
Yan Ke resigned from Wei Xiu and left Jiaofang Hall with people.
"The slave will."
"I know." Yan Ke nodded, "That's why I asked my aunt to help persuade the queen mother, and asked the queen mother to take care of the phoenix body." β
"It's best if Your Highness can think like this." Wei Xiu sighed, looked at Yan Ke with kind eyes, and said: "You are the dearest person in this world, for you, Niangniang is willing even if she gives up her life." β
Yan Ke seemed to guess Wei Xiu's thoughts, his eyes drooped slightly, he pursed the corners of his mouth, and said, "The one done by the queen mother is always good for me!" β
It is said that Niangniang executed His Royal Highness's most beloved woman, and His Royal Highness was so resentful of Niangniang that day, how many days have it been, how did the hatred and resentment in his heart disappear and be exhausted?
Wei Xiu listened to Yan Ke's words, but he looked at Yan Ke with complicated eyes.
Yan Ke nodded, "Please also ask my aunt to comfort the queen mother more, put aside the side in advance, and take care of your body first." β
"Please, the imperial doctor said that he was too worried, and prescribed a few patches of medicine to calm the mind and calm the mind." Wei Xiu said.
Yan Ke sighed softly when he heard this, and asked, "Then did you ask the imperial doctor to ask for the pulse?" β
"Niangniang feels a little shallow these days, but it's okay to be on the side." Wei Xiu said.
Leaving the main hall, Yan Ke paused and asked Wei Xiu beside him, "Aunt Xiu, is the queen mother in poor health these days?" β
Empress Wei nodded, called Wei Xiu, who was guarding outside, to come in, and asked Wei Xiu to send Yan Ke out for her.
"Erchen made a note, you seem to be very tired, Erchen will not disturb the queen mother's rest, and when the queen mother is better, Erchen will come to greet you again." Yan Ke said.
Empress Wei stared at Yan Ke for a while, and saw that he didn't seem to be cheating between his eyebrows, so she breathed a sigh of relief and said softly: "Okay, you go back, remember the words of the queen mother, do a good job of your second highness, and the queen mother will handle the next things." β
"Erchen understands." Yan Ke said.
Empress Wei seemed to be afraid that Yan Keyang would disobey her, so Yan Ke's hand tightened a little, and said in a dumb voice: "Ke'er, you have to believe in the queen mother, since the queen mother said that she would let you achieve your wishes, she will definitely let you get your wish." β
He looked up at Empress Wei, but after facing Empress Wei's deep frown, he lowered his eyes and replied softly: "Yes, Erchen remembers." β
Yan Ke, who thought that he could get a solution from Empress Wei, would have thought that this would be the result.
Yan Ke still wanted to argue, but Queen Wei waved her hand and motioned him not to say more, "Okay, you can go back if you are fine, remember the words of the queen mother, and don't act rashly!" β
"Don't ask, in short, just listen to the queen mother!"
Empress Wei shook her head, there are some things that can be done, but they can't be said, she understands this truth better than anyone else.
"Queen Mother, what kind of arrangement is it? Why didn't you sue SΓΉ Erchen? Yan Ke asked.
"Ke'er, don't act rashly, did you hear that?" Empress Wei accentuated her tone, stared at Yan Ke and said.
But he must be the son of Empress Wei, what does he think, how can Empress Wei not see it?
Although Yan Ke did not express the doubts in his heart.
What kind of arrangement? In case, my father really issued an edict to appoint Yan Yi as the crown prince, is it too late for your so-called arrangement to be the queen mother?
Arrangement?
Empress Wei lowered her head slightly and leaned into Yan Ke's ear, "The queen mother said that it should be yours, and no one can snatch it away." You can do your second highness with peace of mind, and the queen mother has her own arrangements for everything. β
Yan Ke seemed to be stunned, and couldn't remember for a moment what Empress Wei had said.
And after Empress Wei saw Yan Ke stunned, the anger in her eyes was slowly replaced by a kind of unwillingness and ruthlessness, she let out a long sigh, got up and took Yan Ke's hand, looked at Yan Ke condescendingly, and asked in a voice that only the two of them could hear: "What the queen mother said, have you forgotten it?" β
In an instant, the whole person looked at Queen Wei in a daze, as if he had been knocked on the head, and he didn't know how to react for a long time.
Yan Ke never thought that Empress Wei would say such a thing.
"Nothing." Empress Wei interrupted Yan Ke's words, "The harem is not allowed to interfere in politics, let alone such a big matter as the prince." You came to tell your mother about this in such a hurry, have you ever thought about where you want to leave your mother? And did your husband teach you not to stand under the wall, or did you read all these years in vain? β
"But ......"
"Who's talking in the palace?" Empress Wei stared at Yan Ke with sharp eyes, and said word by word: "What a big deal is the establishment of a prince, how can these slaves be able to discuss it?" Now that you have heard it, you should tie him up and send him directly to your father, so that your father can deal with him!" β
Yan Ke blinked and said dryly: "Everyone in the palace is talking? β
"Who did you listen to?"
Empress Wei raised her gaze lightly, and met Yan Ke's eyes that were red from anger.
Where is Yan Ke still in the mood to sit, he stepped in front of Empress Wei, and said eagerly: "Queen Mother, have you heard, my father is going to make Yan Yi the crown prince." β
"Ke is coming, here it is." Empress Wei interrupted Yan Ke's words with a smile and gave Wei Xiu a look, seeing that Wei Xiu retreated quietly and guarded the door in person, Empress Wei pointed to the pestle in front of Yan Ke and said, "Sit down first." β
"Mother, you've heard of ...... too."
Empress Wei couldn't help but look up at Wei Xiu, Wei Xiu immediately walked out in a few steps, planning to personally invite Yan Ke in, but as soon as she turned around, she saw that the curtain was flicked, and Yan Ke's tall figure had already walked in.
At this time, the voice of the palace man sounded outside. "Niangniang, the second hall is here."
"Yes, sissy." Wei Xiu answered, and was about to turn around and retreat.
Empress Wei loosened her hand on her forehead, and the corners of her lips on her much thinner face curled up with a sneering arc, and said coldly: "Tell me to go down, I don't want to hear such words in Jiaofang Hall in the future." β
"It's all out there." Wei Xiu whispered to Empress Wei: "Although the two sides are at loggerheads, the emperor has just met Concubine Shuniang in the imperial study, and the two have already gone to Mingguang Hall together. β
Empress Wei rubbed her forehead, leaned slightly, and raised her head to Wei Xiu and asked, "Where did you hear these words?" β
Jiaofang Palace.
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Helan stood up with Yan Zhengtian's hand, and the two walked out of the hall together.
Yan Zhengtian was silent for a moment and stood up, "Let's go, I'll go with you to see Yi'er." β
Helan shook his head, "No." β
Yan Zhengtian's thoughts were surging in his mind, but his mouth said lightly: "Who moved the hand, does this still need to be asked?" After a pause, he frowned, looked at Helan and asked, "Why did you suddenly talk about it, have you been to see Yi'er?" β
Can such two people stay?
Yan Zhengtian closed his eyes, the jade seal had returned to him, but the rich Jingshan was still in Yan Li's hands, these two people, one was cruel by nature, and even such a rebellious thing as killing his father could do it, what else could she not do? The other is even more dust-free at the moment, and it seems that there are no people and things in this world that can make him bend his waist.
Outsiders thought that Han Cheng was injured by the assassin in order to protect Rong Jin, but in fact, he and Han Cheng both knew that the arrow was shot by Rong Jin himself!
In addition to Yan Wensu being the princess of war, she is also the princess of Northern Qi, no matter which identity she is, it is impossible to stop the poisoning! In an instant, I remembered Han Cheng's injury that day.
Yan Zhengtian held Helan's hand and couldn't help but stiffen.
"Your Majesty, on the way to the concubine, I heard the palace people say that the princess of war was poisoned, although she was detoxified by the hands of the flower doctor, but the whole person seems to be decades old." Helan squatted beside Yan Zhengtian, leaned his face on Yan Zhengtian's hand, and said softly: "You say, who will do it?" β
Helan paused slightly, slowly straightened his waist, and then Lianbu walked to Yan Zhengtian's side and held Yan Zhengtian's outstretched hand.
Yan Zhengtian gathered his thoughts, raised his hand and said to Helan Clan: "Ah Xin, come here, come to my side." β
"The concubine has seen the emperor." Helan bent his knees.
When his eyes fell on Shi Shiran's Helan clan, who was walking towards him step by step, Yan Zhengtian was in a trance for a moment.
When the Helan clan came in, Yan Zhengtian had already sat back on the dragon chair.
Zhihua retreated.
"Yes, sissy."
Helan nodded, turned back to Zhihua and said, "You wait outside, just go in the palace by yourself." β
The little eunuch hurriedly turned around and said to Helan with a shy smile: "Niangniang, please come in." β
"Please come in."
But at this time in the hall, Yan Zhengtian's voice sounded.
The little eunuch hesitated for a moment, but before he could speak, Zhihua's purse had already been stuffed into his hand, and it was heavy in his hand. Pursing his lips, he stuffed his purse into his sleeve, intending to be brave enough to do it again.
Zhihua hurriedly stepped forward, took out a purse from his sleeve cage, and handed it to the little eunuch.
"Father-in-law will pass it on to the palace again." Helan said, and glanced at the Zhihua beside him.
Helan raised his head slowly, although his face was covered with delicate makeup, even the thick fat powder could not hide the blue and black circle under his eyes.
The reason why she seized this opportunity was to make Wei Jingfen, a slut, believe that the emperor really intended to make Yi'er the crown prince?
How can it be?
Will you come back later?
After waiting, but still didn't wait for Yan Zhengtian's voice, the little eunuch couldn't help but look helplessly at Helan who was standing under the eaves of the corridor, and said softly: "Niangniang, or you will come back later, right?" β
What's going on?
The emperor is standing there, it's been almost half an hour, right?
The little eunuch cautiously looked into the empty hall.
Outside the temple.
But why......
She said that she would not protect him for the rest of his life, so he would learn to take responsibility and grow by himself.
Wasn't he what she had asked for?
The imperial sister dislikes him, he understands, but why is the imperial sister disappointed?
That undisguised disgust and disappointment was like a knife deep in his heart at that time, and for so many years, he tried his best to pull it out, but he couldn't pull it out.
He forgot a lot, but he clearly remembered the gaze of the imperial sister at that time.
The scene when Yan Wuxian left flashed in his mind.
His eyes fell on the distant house outside the hall, which was illuminated by the remnant sun like blood.
Yan Zhengtian's pale face slowly rose.
The voice of the little eunuch sounded outside the hall.
"Your Majesty, the lady concubine asks to see you."
Yan Zhengtian didn't say any more, he just felt that his throat suddenly felt like a knife had been cut, and the pain made him speechless for a moment.
Why what?
"Sister Huang, I didn't rely on you for a lifetime as you requested, but why ......?"
Yan Zhengtian's lips pursed tightly, and the corners of his lips suddenly curled up with a self-deprecating arc.
His throne was won by the royal sister for him!
The imperial sister's sentence back then, "Don't say it's just a Jingshan, it's the rivers and mountains of the Northern Qi Dynasty, if I want it, can you not give it?" Although it is arrogant, it is in a word.
After her father died, the three emperor brothers suddenly attacked, and after the imperial sister blocked a palm for her, she took down the three emperor brothers and Concubine Tong by thunderous means, but there was not only one third emperor brother in the palace, he also had two emperor brothers, six emperor brothers, and eight emperor brothers...... In those years, it was really bloody and bloody, and this throne was the royal sister who stepped on the white bones and helped him sit up!
Later, not only Concubine Tong, but even other concubines restrained the prince under their knees...... Until the death of his father, the edict was sent to him. The palace, which had been silent for a long time, seemed to be lively again.
No accident, it was the imperial sister who saved him!
The next moment, he saw two bloody arms being thrown in from outside the well. Blood stained him, but he was not afraid at all, because he recognized the two hands that still had sleeves as belonging to the Fourth Emperor Brother.
The methods of the Four Emperor Brothers are the same as those of the Three Emperor Brothers, except that instead of throwing him into Crescent Lake, they throw him into an abandoned well in the palace. He desperately shouted "Sister Huang save me", but he remembered that Sister Huang didn't seem to be in the palace that day. Just as he was desperately waiting for death, a cry sounded outside the well that was even more poignant than his cry.
Everyone in the palace said that Concubine An would be the next queen, and the fourth emperor brother, who was fifteen years old at the time, would undoubtedly be the candidate for the crown prince.
After the death of the queen mother, his father rested most of the time in the bedroom of Concubine An, the mother of the four emperor brothers.
It's just that this person is not the third emperor brother, but the fourth emperor brother.
Later, someone did reach out.
He told the imperial sister about his uneasiness, but the imperial sister touched his head and told him with clear eyes, "Don't be afraid, as long as they dare to stretch out their hands, the imperial sister will dare to chop off their claws!" β
At that time, although he was not the crown prince, he was the concubine of the middle palace after all, and his father was also old, and the concubines and princes in the palace began to move.
He didn't understand what silk grass was, and he didn't understand what the imperial sister meant by those words, but since then, the imperial sister has taken care of his daily life like a queen mother.
The imperial sister didn't say anything at first, but then she sighed, touched his head, and said in a deep voice: "Forget it, in this world, most women are silk grass, how can she ask others according to her own ideas?" β
After the queen mother's funeral, he asked the imperial sister why she didn't let the queen mother go at ease.
The queen mother died of illness, and the father also lingered on the bed for many days.
The queen mother cried so sadly at that time, and he also cried, only the royal sister stubbornly raised her head, until the queen mother breathed, and she did not shed a single tear.
Before he died, he handed him over to the imperial sister, who remembered that the imperial sister looked at the queen mother with a cold face, a pair of eyes colder than the ice in winter, and said: "Your own child, if you don't protect it, why should I protect it for you?" β
Later, not long after, the queen mother died of illness.
"To be strong for her mother, she doesn't stand up by herself, and it's useless for anyone to help her. Every day, you are the same, remember, the royal sister can protect you for a while, but not for a lifetime, you must learn to stand on your own feet at the top of this kingdom! β
Concubine Tong vented her anger on the queen mother, he couldn't look past it, and begged the imperial sister to stand up for the queen mother, what did the imperial sister say?
Concubine Tong naturally refused to give up, and made trouble in front of her father, who said lightly, "He is a big man, and he can't even beat a weak woman like Xian'er, are you embarrassed to ask me to administer justice for him?" Concubine Tong was so choked that she couldn't say a word.
That day, he was blocked in the Imperial Garden by the Third Emperor Brother, and the Third Emperor Brother threw him into the Crescent Lake of the Imperial Garden in front of many palace people, just when he thought he was going to die. The imperial sister suddenly ran out of nowhere, plunged into the water, and rescued him. Not only did she save him, but she turned around and beat the Third Emperor Brother and the guards beside him to the ground.
And the mother and his fears finally became a reality one day.
The mother's worries were even heavier, and she looked at him with beady eyes, not allowing him to take half a step away from her eyes. When he was young, he didn't understand, and as he grew older, he also felt this trepidation, and always felt that the royal brothers in the palace looked at him like a hungry dog looking at meat, and they wanted to tear him up and eat him!
Concubine Tong, who has the highest voice, did not become a queen, but her mother concubine, who was cautious by nature and was like an invisible person in the huge harem, was made a queen! In the second year after the mother was ordained, she gave birth to him.
Later, he was born and grew up, and occasionally heard the older palace people say that the crown prince should have been killed by the third emperor brother. It's just that no one expected that not long after this incident, his father, who had never established a queen, suddenly made his mother, who had only one princess under the knees of the imperial sister, as the queen.
The third emperor brother was born by Concubine Tong, and Concubine Tong's father, Ning Guogong, occupied one side with heavy troops at that time, that is, when his father was alive, he also had to avoid his edge and give three points of thin face. And although their queen mother is the queen of the middle palace, she is the step-queen, the first queen died of illness a few years ago, and the first prince also had an accident when riding a horse in the imperial village, and before he could send it to the palace, he swallowed his breath.
He still remembered that when his butt was just put on the dragon chair, the third emperor brother suddenly made a difficulty, questioning the authenticity of the edict in the imperial sister's hand, and rushed forward to check the edict, but the wind under his palm slapped his chest fiercely, and the imperial sister stopped her without thinking about it.
It's the royal sister, she holds him and places him properly in the chair!
He remembered that at that time, his father had just died, and the imperial sister held his hand with his father's edict and sent him here step by step, I don't know if it was because he was too small, or the dragon chair was too high, or the imperial brothers at that time scared him, he only remembered that when he finally walked to the edge of the dragon chair, he didn't have the strength to sit on this chair.
The first time I sat in this chair flashed through my mind.
Only Yan Zhengtian was left in the main hall, and his gaze slowly fell on the dragon chair painted with gold paint on his side. The chair is carved with openwork technology, the carving is exquisite, nine dragons "entrenched" on the throne, the winding and majestic dragon body, dragon scales, dragon whiskers and so on lifelike.
Tong Xi hurriedly retreated.
"Go ahead." Yan Zhengtian waved his hand.
Tong Xi was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly responded: "Yes, the slave will arrange it." β
Yan Zhengtian nodded, and after a moment of silence, he said softly: "When I release the news, I will say that I intend to appoint His Royal Highness as the prince." β
"If you go back to the emperor, it's all arranged." Tong Xilian said.
"Is everything arranged over there in the Mingguang Palace?"
Yan Zhengtian stood up with both hands on the dragon chair at this moment, and Tong Xi hurriedly stepped aside.
What does the emperor mean by this?
Tong Xi couldn't help but have a bitter face.
Yan Zhengtian's slender eyes were slightly raised, and a treacherous light flashed, and he snorted lightly, half mocking and said: "Our young master Yan is really a smart person, of course, how can the son of the princess and Li Qi be stupid!" β
"Your Majesty." Tong Xi, who had been carefully looking at his expression, saw this slightly rising arc, bowed his waist, stepped forward with a low face, and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, why did you say that he suddenly thought of presenting the jade seal at this time?" β
And who can say that this is not the result that Yan Zhengtian wants? It's just that...... Yan Zhengtian's gaze fell on the jade seal with a warm light on the imperial case, and the brows that had been twisted for a long time suddenly spread out at this moment, and the corners of his lips also pulled up a smile that was almost invisible.
The matter of establishing a reserve in the imperial study ended in a confrontation between the two factions to no avail.