The general content can be divided into the cause and effect of the matter and the warning.

It is not difficult to guess the cause of Huang Cheng's death, the palace purged the henchmen, he was regarded as a faction of ten permanent servants, and he was accused of being a rebel and a thief, and the evaluation was also very dazzling.

'Dead is more than innocent'.

If I didn't stay here tonight, I might be able to let the people of the Huang Mansion live for a few more days, but I didn't expect the palace to move so fast.

As for the warning, it was just to ask Cheng Liu not to enter Beijing and not to face the saint.

All of this looks like He Jin's actions, thinking of the previous Red Armor Army and the left and right Yulin Army, and it is He Jin who has such a big hand.

But when I think about it, all of this is all too obvious.

He Jin has a reason to kill himself, but it doesn't seem to be his style.

For him, the means of killing a person can be a blatant charge, and then lead people to raid their homes in broad daylight, not to mention an inconspicuous petty official like the Huang family.

Moreover, it doesn't affect anyone's foundation for him, except for Cheng Liu, no one cares about his life and death.

Thinking of these, He Jin's suspicion was eliminated little by little, and it was extremely likely that the Ten Standing Servants were there.

Tonight, the three assassins looked very elegant, and they were probably also the subordinates of the eunuchs in the palace, and it didn't matter which one they were, they all belonged to the same litter.

After burning the letter paper, Cheng Liu didn't have the heart to sleep, so he went to the house to check to see if there was anything alive.

Not surprisingly, except for the miscellaneous servants who were sent away by Huang Cheng before, there is not a single living mouth left in the house now.

In the morning, Cheng Liu took a bath and changed his clothes, and then went to report to the official, and then prepared to enter the palace.

Without the imperial summons of the Queen Mother and the Young Emperor, it was not easy to enter the palace, and Cheng Liu was blocked from the palace.

But he was not in a hurry, he found a random place to sit down, and someone would always go out of the palace to pick him up.

Sure enough, after a while, a carriage slowly stopped outside the palace gate, and the coachman was still the big eunuch.

"Let Cheng Gongzi wait for a long time, please come inside."

changed the title, but Cheng Liu got used to it.

He smiled and got straight into the carriage.

"First of all, our family has to congratulate Cheng Gongzi on his successful arrival in Beijing, I'm afraid I have suffered a lot along the way, right?"

Cheng Liu just replied lightly: "It's a lot of tempering, it's worth it." ”

The big eunuch laughed sharply a few times, and then said, "Is it the first time to see the Queen Mother today, or the first to see the Young Emperor?" ”

"The two aren't together?"

"Cheng Gongzi doesn't know anything, the young emperor occasionally feels cold, and now he is raised in Imperial Doctor Chen's other hospital, anyway, he is in the palace, and he stays the same everywhere. Besides, the Queen Mother now has her own important things to do, and it is not very convenient for the young emperor to follow. ”

That's a lot of words.

Cheng Liu replied: "Let's see the Queen Mother first, and after that, see the Young Emperor again." ”

"I'm afraid I have to choose a day when I see the young emperor, last night the young emperor shouted to see the queen mother, and I didn't sleep all night."

Cheng Liu sneered and stopped talking.

The carriage moved forward slowly, and it was not the first time that the road into the palace had been taken, but now I only felt that things were wrong.

After driving into Jiaofang Palace, the big eunuch said in front: "Our family will be sent here, the Queen Mother doesn't like to see people recently, and asks Cheng Gongzi to come out early." ”

Cheng Liu just hummed, and then got out of the carriage.

Glancing around, sure enough, the place was heavily guarded before, but now there are almost no guards except for a few palace maids and eunuchs.

A palace maid came over and said coldly, "Please come with me." ”

After a few detours of the road in front of him, he finally took Cheng Liu into Jiaofang Palace.

There are even fewer palace maids and guards here, adding up to less than twenty people, but along the way, I didn't see Chundie and Qiuhong.

On the big platform at the back, Empress Dowager He sat in the courtyard, much haggard compared to before.

But after all, the beauty blank is placed there, and it looks a little more pitiful and weak woman at this time.

There were too many things that happened before, and Cheng Liu was no longer used to judging people by their appearance.

The palace maid withdrew, and Empress Dowager He waved her hand in the courtyard and motioned for him to sit down.

"Hearing the news that Cheng Gongzi is still alive, the mourning family is very relieved."

Empress Dowager He looked at him and smiled slightly.

Cheng Liu couldn't laugh at all.

"Huang Cheng died last night."

"The mourners know."

Empress Dowager He just made an understatement, and then continued: "The government and the opposition can only be controlled by the mourning family, and there are only ten permanent servants, so the general is pressing, but one day the conflict will break out, Cheng Gongzi, you came today, presumably for this matter, right?" ”

Cheng Liu did not hide it at all.

"It's true that the affairs in the palace have nothing to do with me, but the Red Armor Army and the left and right Yulin Army are going to take Cheng's life, plus last night's incident, it seems that I can't tolerate it in the eyes of the Ten Standing Servants, Empress Dowager He, you should also see that even if you take down Yingchuan's soldiers and horses, it seems that it is far from enough."

At least to be based on the court, the weight is far from enough.

However, Cheng Liu still kept an eye on these inner words and did not reveal them directly.

Empress Dowager He then replied: "You don't need to worry about this, if they really want to kill you, the Mourning family will naturally take action, but now the pattern is different, in order to avoid the edge for the time being, the Mourning family has not seen the young emperor for a long time." ”

This is not a lie, it can be seen from the loneliness in her eyes.

Cheng Liu didn't say anything, waiting for her to continue.

"Do you want to be the state minister of Yangzhou? The mourning family drafted a secret edict, promising that you can support troops in Yangzhou and respect yourself, but if you are still like this, those eunuchs in the palace will not be idle. Youzhou, Qingzhou, Bingzhou, and even Yizhou are all starting to arrange soldiers and horses, and they have also supported a group of heroes. ”

"The mourning family's hand can't stretch out that long, and they can't deal with them blatantly, so you have to do these things."

Cheng Liu was not surprised, but nodded.

"The war in Xiqiang is tight, you should know it, right?"

Cheng Liu had just come back from Liangzhou before, but at that time, the pattern was far from the point of starting a war, plus Luan Tangshan was there, and he was still not too worried when he heard about the fire of the war before, but now Empress Dowager He suddenly took the initiative to mention it, as if she was vaguely indicating something.

"The imperial court will send soldiers and horses to Liangzhou, and the mourning family knew that you also had a garrison of grain over there, that Luantang Mountain, now it is your person, right? The mourning family can help you keep it, but the soldiers and horses over there will be collected in the hands of the generals sent by the imperial court, so you must have no opinion, right? ”

Cheng Liu smiled: "Naturally, I don't dare to have an opinion." ”

Empress Dowager He also smiled.

"In this case, everything is easy to do, Yangzhou was your territory before, and now it is justifiable to give you power, even if the Yuan family in Jizhou in the north is eyeing you, they can't care about dealing with you, I will press the court here, as long as you don't die, Yangzhou will always be in your hands."