Zhao Chi came back, and Zhao Xi went out and shouted: "Shengshang, do you want to have a dragon boat race during the Dragon Boat Festival?" ”

Zhao Chi looked at him, with some impatience between his eyebrows: "What made you think on a whim?" ”

Zhao Xi said: "It's okay to be idle, it's better to find something to do." ”

"You have to be really idle, bring Yuntai to the palace tomorrow and be a middleman between him and the prince." Zhao Chi glanced at him and said, "Okay, let's go back." ”

Zhao Xi didn't look very happy, saluted to leave, remembered something, and then stopped Zhao Chi to speak: "Do you want to reorganize your imperial garden?" I have recently had a new idea, and you are guaranteed to be satisfied. ”

"You let me think about it, go back." Zhao Chi obviously didn't want to talk to him more, so he pushed open the door of the imperial study and went in, Zhao Xi stopped talking, and looked at the thatched house worriedly, I don't know if Song Ning is out of the palace or out of Gong, he went over there.

Ji Chun followed Zhao Chi to serve, Zhao Chi took off his coat, drank a cup of cold tea impatiently, put the cup and pushed the door of the inner room.

Ji Chun, as usual, exited the door to close the imperial study.

Tan Ren hung his head, his face like gold paper.

"Master." Tan Ren said to Ji Chun, "Do you want to have a drink tonight, can I have a drink with you?" ”

Ji Chun glanced at him: "What kind of wine to drink, you are not allowed to be greedy for these." ”

"Got it." Tan Ren smiled, the afterglow in his eyes was cast inside through the door to be closed, Zhao Chi also entered the inner room, and closed the door reflexively, at this moment, there was an explosion, and a flame flower flew into the sky, not far from the palace.

Zhao Chi was also startled when he blew it up, and his hand that closed the door paused and asked, "Ji Chun, what's the sound?" ”

"It's fireworks. Lord Xiao Song said that he would celebrate Lord Fang's resignation tonight, and he said it just now in the palace. ”

Zhao Chi said: "Nonsense! ”

He turned around and closed the door, and a small attendant ran towards him inside the door, shouting, "Father-in-law, it's out of the water." ”

"Don't scream, where is the water?"

The little chamberlain shouted: "There is water in the Kunning Palace." ”

Then the little waiter replied: "Father-in-law, the thatched house in front of me is also out of the water." ”

"Why do you have water in both places at once? It can't be a firework falling in, right? He looked up at the sky, and the fireworks were still flying, and it was very lively.

Ji Chun didn't close the door and hesitated whether he wanted to return to Zhao Chi, Zhao Chi had already walked out again, grabbed his coat and said as he walked: "How did you walk the water, where is it burning?" Is the Queen Mother absent? ”

"The side hall of Kunning Palace, the Queen Mother hasn't seen it yet."

Zhao Chi frowned, strode towards Kunning Palace, and said as he walked: "Take the water over there in the thatched house, Yin Zhi, take someone to put out the fire." ”

Yin Zhi responded, and took the guards to save the fire in the thatched house.

Zhao Chi went to Kunning, and the flames were soaring there.

It was the utility room behind Kunning Palace, but it was also very close to the main hall, and Zhao Chi shouted: "Who is the person on duty?" ”

Everyone fell to their knees.

"Tian Fuxing, get out and see me."

"The slave is here." Tian Fuxing came out of Kunning Palace, Zhao Chi stared at him and asked, "How is the queen mother?" ”

Before Tian Fuxing could speak, the Queen Mother had already come out of the palace, raising her chin and looking at Zhao Chi: "I didn't burn to death, thank you for your concern." ”

"It's good that the queen mother is fine." Zhao Chi said worriedly, "Let the queen mother be frightened." ”

The Queen Mother said lightly: "There are a lot of surprises, this is nothing." Looking at him again, "I heard that the queen vomited blood, how is it?" ”

"The Queen Mother is guarding it, so it's okay for the time being."

The Queen Mother said: "Let's go and see her at the mourning family, it's rare that she has been kneeling at the gate of my palace recently to ask for peace, and she didn't come to the mourning family here and walked away." He added, "The mourning family has to go, thank her for giving the mourning family a town." ”

After walking a few steps, she saw the fire coming up from elsewhere, and she said suspiciously: "Why, the queen has also taken a house elsewhere?" ”

"It's a thatched house." Zhao Chi replied in a muffled voice, and said, "Queen Mother, it's not safe here, it's better for you to change the hall and stay for one night, and come back after dawn to avoid accidents." ”

"Mourning family......" The Queen Mother looked at Zhao Chi and said, "Don't go anywhere!" ”

Zhao Chi smiled and should be.

"Let's go see the queen first, no, it's not impossible for the mourning family to be in Fengwu Palace tonight." The Queen Mother said and held Tian Fuxing's hand, and suddenly stopped and looked at Zhao Chi: "Let's go together, what are you doing in a daze?" ”

Zhao Chi's brows furrowed almost imperceptibly, but he still responded with a smile, and instructed Ji Chun as he walked: "Go to Fengwu Palace and say something, the Queen Mother will be there later." ”

Ji Chun trotted to arrange.

Zhao Chi has been on the throne for more than three years, and the number of times the Queen Mother and Zhao Chi have met is only to take a photo during the New Year's Festival.

But if the Queen Mother made a score, Zhao Chi would still have to listen.

Outside the palace gate, another firework exploded, illuminating half of the palace.

Zhao Chi stopped, looked at the fireworks in the air, thoughtful.

At this moment, the fire on the side of the thatched house suddenly became brighter, and then there was a bang, and then the stench came to the face.

Zhao Chi asked, "What's the matter?" ”

The thatched houses in the palace are clean, and the manure is cleaned up every night.

But the smell of odor is not determined by volume and area alone.

The Queen Mother stepped back, helped Tian Fuxing, and when the rumbling fireworks exploded, she asked, "This is the method that kid thought of?" ”

Tian Fuxing didn't dare to speak, but he thought so.

"Bastard thing!" The Queen Mother was so angry that she was dizzy, and suddenly realized that Zhao Yi came back and told her that he wanted to die when Song Ning blew up the thatched house.

She also wants to die now, and she wants Song Ning to die.

"Is there no other way?" She asked Tian Fuxing, and Tian Fuxing didn't know if there was a better way, but she had to say that the way was not bad.

There are many people on the other side of the Jinshui River, watching the fireworks and eating candy.

In normal times, it would be deserted and deserted, and tonight would be particularly lively.

The guards pushed it a few times, but the wind came forward to suppress it, promising that it would disperse within a quarter of an hour.

Song Ning ran out of the palace, and the stench was chasing behind her, and she was also very helpless. If she had a more advanced method, she wouldn't have been able to blow up the hut.

Isn't she disgusting and smelly? She sacrificed a lot.

Tonight, she just wanted Zhao Chi not to stay in the imperial study.

Zhao Yi will be back tomorrow.

After this, come when it's time to come, she has nothing to fear, everyone in it has their own arrangements.

Zhao Xi walked behind her, looked at her with no love, and said: "I'm going home, and in the next few years in garden design, I want to think about how to hide the thatched house." ”

"Lord Wang, how hard you work."

Zhao Xi brushed his sleeves and left.

"Your Excellency." Qiu came up and stopped beside Song Ning, and Song Ning greeted the people who saw her while listening to Qiu's words.

Qiu said: "Someone has entered the Zongren Mansion." ”

"Is it the Eternal Life Cult?" Song Ning thought of the people of the Immortal Life Sect that she saw on the road when she entered the palace, and she actually forgot to ask Zhao Xi about the Eternal Life Sect just now.

Qiu glanced at Song Ning one after another: "Adults know everything?" ”

"Well, when I saw Song Yuanshi, he was standing in the crowd wearing a hood. What does he want to do, did he tell you? ”

Qiu shook his head one after another: "Kang Qingdu seems to be going to make a big fuss, many members of the Eternal Life Sect in the capital originally planned to go to the street to recite the doctrine tonight, but they were suppressed by Mr. Yuan. ”

Kang Qingdu? Song Ning thought of the deaf and dumb old man, as well as the Qingdu dart game that he had disappeared overnight.

"How did you make it big?" Song Ning was puzzled.

She knew that Song Yuanshi had a plan, but she did not have any contact with Song Yuanshi and his Immortal Sect.

Her actions tonight are hers, she has arrangements, but she also did not communicate with Song Yuanshi, but according to the degree to which Song Yuanshi broke off the relationship with her, she felt that Song Yuanshi had to do a lot of things.

"The subordinates feel that Kang Qingdu wants to create turmoil in the city, but the prince has not come back yet, and he is likely to wait a little longer." Autumn said.

After tonight, many things will change, and many questions will be answered.

"You do your business, the things that the prince ordered to arrange, you do it well, I need your lord's help in the affairs here, I will go to you." Song Ning said, "What's more, I'm not alone now, so you don't have to worry." ”

Autumn should be: "Adults note safety." ”

They all scattered.

Song Ning stood in the crowd and giggled and helped Lu Miaomiao distribute candy.

After a tea time, she walked through the alley and arrived at the back door of the Lu Mansion, where someone was waiting for her at the back door, opened the door for her, and silently led her into the main courtyard, and the light was turned on in the courtyard behind the main courtyard.

The women and children of the Lu Mansion and the people of the Song Mansion went out of the city together to take refuge, and the subordinates also dispersed tonight, so the people who led Song Ning in only found that it was Lu Yuan after they arrived at the bright place.

"Lord Xiao Song!" Lu Yuan saluted Song Ning, "Father wants me to go to the palace gate to meet you." Father said that you insisted that he come out and stay in the palace by himself, and that he was worried about you. ”

Song Ning said: "My legs and feet are faster than Master Lu, and I can run much more neatly." ”

Lu Yuan clasped his fists at Song Ning: "The kindness of the adults, Lu Yuan is willing to pay with his life." ”

"Don't say it so solemnly. Time is in a hurry, go to your father first. After Song Ning finished speaking, Lu Yuan should have led her to the courtyard, closed the door and entered the main hall.

The light in the main hall was not bright enough, but Song Ning saw Lu Zhi sitting in his seat at a glance.

His face was pale like paper, dull, and he was thin, and the sides of the chair were still empty enough to stuff him with one more.

When she saw him in the imperial study just now, she was a little flustered, and she didn't look at the other party carefully or speak.

"Student Lu Zhi!" Lu Zhi got up and clasped his fists at Song Ning, "Say hello to Lord Little Song." ”

The tailor Tong Chunniang showed her three letters last night, and the three letters were written by Tong Chunniang's fiancé Mu Yan. In the letter, Mu Yan said that he admired the Lan Shi Gongzi. After Lan Shigongzi returned to Beijing, he invited him to come to the capital and arranged him to be in the national prison, but after Mu Yan arrived in the capital, he was arranged to live in a courtyard where four magnolia trees could be seen in the courtyard, and then Mu Yan died.

Tong Chunniang asked Song Ning at the time, if she dared to continue to investigate, because she had already found out who the courtyard belonged to and who Lan Shi was.

It was Zhao Chi, Zhao Lanshi of the year, and the prince of the year, when he went to Nanzhili to inspect, he met the handsome talented and simple Muyan.

And who is Zhao Lanshi? He was still the one in Lu Zhi's Codex.

"He's so special, I saw him at a glance in the crowd."

When Song Ning read the Codex, he often thought, how special must he be to make Lu Zhi, who is talented, handsome and high-born, look at him differently? It has to be an outstanding character like Zhao Yi, right?

It wasn't until last night that she realized that that person was the crown prince Zhao Chi at the time.

A capable, calm personality, gentle, many of his younger brothers' mothers died early, and he was despised by his father, but he was born with a disability in the court. Such a person, no matter where he stands, will have his own aura, a kind of compassion that makes people want to protect, support and follow the aura.

A prince who grew up like this should be gloomy, moody, and even raised to be crooked and self-defeating, but on the contrary, he seems positive, motivated, and impeccable, and such a person is certainly attractive.

But in reality? Song Ning looked at Lu Zhi and said, "I'm glad that you're still alive." ”

There were so many people dead in the new coal mountain, she was really happy that Lu Zhi could be spared.

Lu Zhi laughed miserably: "Actually, it's better to die!" ”

Song Ning looked at him, Lu Zhi's eyebrows and eyes were very clear, his eyes were big but not feminine, he was not simply beautiful, but a man's handsomeness.

"Something else, we'll wait and see!" Song Ning said to Lu Zhi, "Follow the wind to hide, don't delay." ”

Lu Zhi should be, and said: "The Holy Lord will go to the apse to see me every day, and he will soon find out that I am not there, what will I do when the time comes?" ”

"Don't be afraid, if the prince doesn't come back, none of us will die, at most Lord Lu and I will suffer a little bit of flesh and skin." After Song Ning finished speaking, he looked at the father and son in front of him soothingly, "Do what we planned before, don't panic." ”

"Methodical and methodical!" Song Ning said and walked out of the courtyard, and then followed Lu Yuan out of the back door.

In the room, Lu Xiaoren looked at Lu Zhi and advised: "It's not easy to save you, you have to be worthy of Lord Xiao Song and everyone." ”

"The child knows." Lu Zhiying was, followed Lu Xiaoren to the backyard, Sun Yuanzhong sent someone to find Song Ning, Song Ning was not there, Lu Xiaoren asked the other party: "What's the matter?" ”

The person who spoke back and forth: "The saint asked the personal guard to take a few tokens and go out. We adults said he couldn't help more, waiting for good news. ”

Everyone has fears and worries, and he, Lu Xiaoren, can follow King Qi for his son and faith, but he can't ask everyone to be as righteous as him.

Silent support, isn't it support?!

"Tell Lord Sun, we know, let people tell Lord Xiao Song."

Song Ning left the Lu Mansion, ran quickly, and disappeared into the dark night.

……

Fengwu Palace. Zhao Chi sat on a chair on one side and drank tea, the Queen Mother sat on top of him, and the Queen was lying on the bed.

The queen vomited blood today, her body was very weak, and she was already drowsy.

But tonight, the Queen Mother and Zhao Chi both came to visit her, but no one spoke, and the atmosphere in the room was stiff and awkward, so she had to take the initiative to speak to create an atmosphere.

After she said more than a dozen words in a row, she was too tired to stop, and this pause, the atmosphere in the room was about to reach its extreme.

The Queen Mother didn't even drink tea, her left hand was propped up and her eyes were closed, and she was very tired.

"If the queen mother is tired, go and rest, the fire on both sides is extinguished, you don't have to worry." Zhao Chi said to the Queen Mother.

The Queen Mother opened her eyes and glanced at him, and closed her eyes again: "The mourning family who came to accompany the queen will not go anywhere." ”

"Mourning family, worried about the queen."

The queen opened her mouth to speak, but after thinking about it, she held back.

"Then the queen mother should stay here, it's not too early, I have to go back to rest." Zhao Chi got up to leave, but the Queen Mother didn't stop him, and said casually, "Okay, if you leave, go back to Kunning Palace to rest." ”

As he spoke, he got up.

Zhao Chi looked back at her and asked, "The queen mother doesn't live here?" ”

"Why, the mourning family has to live here?"

Zhao Chi narrowed his eyes and said, "Follow your mother's toilet." ”

With that, he flicked his sleeves and left.

The Queen Mother's face sank, and she looked back at the queen, and the queen's strong spirit looked back at her.

The Queen Mother walked back again, stood by the bed and looked at the queen, and asked, "What year did you enter the Prince's Mansion?" ”

"I don't remember." The queen shook her head, "What does the queen mother command?" ”

The Queen Mother bent down and touched her head, and said, "Do you have any concerns?" ”

The queen mother never said anything to the queen, today is a rare initiative to speak, the queen was very surprised, watching the queen mother understand the question she asked, and couldn't help but wonder for a moment, and then replied: "I can't let go of the prince!" ”

"Not really, we'll see each other soon." The Queen Mother said, "Sleep in peace!" ”

The queen was ignorant, and the queen mother was gone.

The chamberlain came up to serve, and the queen asked, "Is the prince okay over there?" ”

"It's already midnight, you rest first, and the slave will ask tomorrow morning."

The queen closed her eyes, she didn't know how long it was, suddenly the door was kicked open, she was awakened, in front of the bed that was not bright, there was a figure, even if she couldn't see the other party's face clearly, but she could recognize the other party's figure.

"Holy Lord, the Queen Mother has returned to Kunning Palace, is there anything wrong with you?"

Zhao Chi asked her, "What do you care about?" ”

"Huh?" The queen was very surprised, and the Empress Dowager also asked her, and she replied the same, "The concubine just can't rest assured that Runtian is still ...... Please also remember that Runtian is your flesh and blood. ”

Zhao Chi replied: "Got it." ”

There was a quiet moment in the room.

The queen wanted to sleep and wake up, she was too tired at the moment, which made her think of the feeling she felt when she gave birth to Zhao Tao, that day her stomach hurt groggily, every time her stomach hurt she bit the handkerchief hard, and after a while, she would be tired to sleep, and after a while, she was woken up by pain and fell asleep again...... And so on.

Tonight she felt like she was back to that night.

The stench in the palace was terrible, and after the pit was blown up, the fire was extinguished, but the stench did not disperse.

Zhao Chi looked at the door of the open inner room of the imperial study with an expressionless face.