"In this world, there is nothing that the Queen Mother does not dare to do. Her ** for power has almost reached the realm of madness. Although the queen mother is her own niece, she is also very afraid of her. As long as someone stands in her way, she will not give up with her. Child... Promise your mother, don't provoke her, she is definitely a person who doesn't recognize her six relatives. The queen stroked the back of Xuanyuan's hand and admonished him.

For a long time, Xuanyuan's heart seems to be really incredible, in his eyes since he was a child, he knows that the Buddha does not ask about the world, and he has always been as kind and compassionate as a Buddha, and the loving imperial grandmother would be so vicious, if this word did not come out of the mouth of her biological mother, no matter who said it, she would never believe half a word.

Could it be that this is the kind of person who does not offend me, I will not offend anyone, and if anyone offends me, I will make people die without a place to bury? It's horrible, it's horrible.

Suddenly, she felt that there was a blur between the world and the world, as if she couldn't see anything clearly.

"Is the death of the concubine also ......" Thinking of this, Xuanyuan's eyes were full of surprise and stared at the queen's face and asked again.

The queen frowned, sighed, and faintly recalled, "The queen mother is not particularly clear about the events of that day. On that day, the Queen Mother summoned the concubine to the palace and said that she would go to the Chenghuang Temple in the south of the city to pray for the blessing of the calamitous Western Qin Kingdom. The queen mother was supposed to accompany the queen mother, but the queen mother said that since she was already accompanied by the concubine, she left the queen mother in the palace to take charge. The queen mother only knows that since your imperial grandfather passed away, the concubine has been unable to sleep all night because she failed to catch up with your imperial grandfather for the last time. It is also quite puzzling why she was the only one who died so deeply in that fire. I just heard from the palace people that the fire in the early morning burned the entire night sky as if it had lit up, and in the end only a pile of white bones remained......"

Xuanyuan listened, and at the same time he was shocked and more affirmed, but he still seemed to be a little puzzled and said, "The City God Temple is a royal temple, the guards are so strict, and there has never been a mistake, presumably, it must be the emperor's grandmother." But at that time, the emperor's grandfather had gone, his father had already been proclaimed emperor, and the emperor's grandmother, she had also become the empress dowager of Western Qin, and she had gotten everything she wanted, but why did she have to get along with the concubine? ”

In fact, the queen has been suspicious in her heart for many years: In this world, the queen mother's biggest and only thorn in the eye, a thorn in the flesh, except for the concubine, I am afraid that there is no second person.

So, she felt distressed and gently stroked Xuanyuan's long black and bright hair, and said, "Son, you are really young. Later, you will slowly understand that in this world, the struggle between women and women never ends because one side wins. Everything, it's only to blame that your imperial grandmother was too affectionate for your imperial grandfather from the beginning, and her hopes were too high, but which man in this world is a man with little affection, which one of them will end up from the beginning? What's more, your imperial grandfather is still the king of this huge Western Qin State. Of course, not only that, but also because the concubine, like those officials in the court, had a resolute attitude of opposition and did not agree with your imperial grandfather to take the descendants of the guardian as a concubine. ”

"The queen mother's implication is that the imperial grandmother supports the imperial grandfather to take the guardian as a concubine? But didn't the queen mother just say that the imperial grandmother has a deep love for the imperial grandfather? Then why did he deliberately push the other woman into the arms of the imperial grandfather? Regulus wondered about this.

The queen smiled at it faintly and helplessly, stopped what she was doing, and finally fixed her eyes on Xuanyuan, who was innocent and immature, and did not experience the world

On his face, he said, "If a woman is desperate for a man and is forced to be anxious, she will do anything, just like even if the Queen Mother loves this man again, she can finally be ruthless and send him to the Yellow Springs Road with her own hands." As the saying goes, 'the color decays and Aiways, and Aiways is gracious', this truth has remained unchanged throughout the ages, especially the royal family. At that time, the concubine had not been in the palace for a few years, she was young and beautiful, and her grandfather was deeply favored, and the queen mother was declining, so she was naturally out of reach. ”

As he spoke, he paused slightly, but turned to a serious face and continued, "But what scared the Queen Mother the most was King Qin who was born by the concubine. King Qin has been diligent in practicing literature and martial arts since he was a child, both civil and military, brave and strategic, and even top-notch, revealing an imperial spirit. As a result, your imperial grandfather favored and favored the concubine and the mother and son of the king of Qin even more, and there were more and more courtiers in the court who supported the concubine and the king of Qin. How can a person as strong as your imperial grandmother tolerate this mother and son? Seeing that it will one day threaten his own position. As a result, people searched for beauties all over the country, so that they could not only become their own wings for their own use, but also disperse the power and favor of the concubine. Only then did I inadvertently mistakenly dedicate the beauty portrait of the guardian's descendants to your imperial grandfather, and instigated your imperial grandfather to include it in the harem. ”

"What do you mean by 'unintentionally mistaking the portrait of a beautiful person who is the descendant of the guardian to be dedicated to the imperial grandfather'? Isn't it rumored that the guardian is dedicated to guarding the Son of Heaven of Western Qin? Why isn't it always by the emperor's grandfather's side, why is it so mysterious, it seems that no one has seen it at all? Xuanyuan listened quietly, suddenly frowned, raised his head and asked suspiciously.

The queen thought for a moment and said, "The guardian of Western Qin is neither a minister nor a nobleman, she is not subject to the control of the imperial court, and she does not take advantage of the imperial court, but as long as she exists in a certain corner of this world, she can have some kind of telepathy with the emperor of Western Qin to try to relieve the crisis for her, and take it as her duty to protect the national fortune and prosperity of Western Qin for generations." Only when each generation of guardians reaches the age of 15 and Lu will send someone to the palace to send their portraits to the empress of the current dynasty for emergencies. Except for the queens, no one knows what the guardians look like. ”

"What? The Guardian can have telepathy with the Son of Heaven, how amazing is it? Xuanyuan was stunned when he heard this.

The queen took a sip of the tea soup, then pursed her lips and smiled faintly, "Well, they are a family of people who have been passed down from one line to another for generations, and they are all women. I heard that after the clan, everyone was beautiful and outstanding, and no one in the world could match it. 'The hands are like soft wattles, the skin is like clotted fat, the collar is like a grub, the teeth are like a rhinoceros, the head of the mantis is like a moth eyebrows, the smile is clever, and the eyes are beautiful. It's like a fairy of the Nine Heavens who has fallen into the mortal dust. Such a beauty, even a woman sighs to herself when she sees it, let alone a man! It is precisely because of this that the queen mother mistakenly thought that it was a peerless beauty found among the people, so she mistakenly presented the portrait to your imperial grandfather, which made your imperial grandfather, who had reached the age of no doubt, seem to be stunned back then, completely ignoring the opposition and obstruction of the courtiers, and insisted on accepting this peerless face as a concubine. ”

"So that's ......," Xuanyuan finally realized.

"The big mistake has been made, and the Queen Mother is also sincerely afraid. But to everyone's surprise, the guardian later encountered an accident on the way to the palace and accidentally fell off a cliff and died. Sure enough, the next Western Qin Kingdom, just as predicted by the admonitions of those important ministers when they dissuaded them before, the Western Qin Kingdom lost its guardians, and even the natural disasters that followed** began to rage everywhere unscrupulously, unstoppable. The queen sighed.

Do you think you're a Guardian? ”

At this point, the temple was in the hall for a while

The room was silent.

The two sat together in silence for a long time, and suddenly, Xuanyuan asked the queen with a pair of black and shining beautiful eyes, "Queen Mother, what is the name of the last guardian who fell off the cliff and died?" ”

"That poor girl, whose name is Ruoxi, was only 15 years old when she died...... "The queen said gloomily.

"What about Ruoxi's portrait? I want to see what she looks like, didn't I say that someone sent her portrait to the palace for the imperial grandmother? Now, the queen mother is the mother of a country in the current dynasty, presumably Ruoxi's portrait must be here in the queen mother, right? Xuanyuan asked curiously.

Hearing this, the queen raised her head and said slowly, "That portrait...... Ever since your imperial grandfather saw it, he hung it in his bedroom all day long, seeing things and thinking about people. Later, the guardian fell off the cliff and died, and the disasters of the Western Qin Kingdom continued, and he finally realized that he had made a big mistake, which put the Western Qin in a dire situation, and he couldn't afford to be sick until he ...... later. Later, your father, the emperor, ordered someone to turn the bottom in your grandfather's dormitory, and only then did he find him under your grandfather's dragon bed. But somehow, the portrait alone was destroyed and his face was unrecognizable. As soon as your father ascended to the throne, he sought out many skilled painters who wanted to restore it, but no one could do it. In the end, he had no choice but to hand over this portrait to Lu Xian of the Xiqin Academy for him to slowly ponder and repair, but there has been no news so far. I'm afraid it's ......"

Xuanyuan was surprised: "The portrait is destroyed? It's just weird. How could such an important picture scroll be ruined? …… Did the Queen Mother ever see the Guardian herself or the portrait, so why not have someone draw another one? ”

"Of course...... Of course not. Since the guardian is dead, and because of a portrait that caused such a catastrophe today, the Queen Mother does not want to mention it again, after a long time, she has only seen that portrait for a moment, and now she can't remember it clearly. Moreover, for some reason, the people who saw that portrait were basically secretly executed by your imperial grandfather. There was a hint of strangeness in the queen's words.

Hearing this, Xuanyuan stared at the queen's eyes in shock. After a long time, Wu muttered to himself, "Is there really no way to identify the Guardian other than the portrait?" ”

was pondering, but unexpectedly, a low voice of the queen seemed to be inaudible to his ears suddenly floated in his ears, "Hear...... Each generation of Guardians has a single phoenix sigil that has been passed down from generation to generation. ”

"'Phoenix Mark'?" Regulus raised his voice in surprise.

The queen nodded slightly, "The queen mother has also heard what people said, and she has never seen it with her own eyes." ”

"But then again, son, recently the queen mother heard your father say that after the Lantern Festival, tomorrow morning the dynasty will decide which country you are close to? If the three princes of Dongning insist on refusing, I am afraid that the matter between you and the great prince of Beilie will be inevitable. In any case, you always have to be prepared in advance. It is difficult to be a woman, and it is even more difficult to be a woman of the royal family, and it is even more difficult to go to the sky. The queen once again clenched Xuanyuan's pair of white and tender jade hands, and said earnestly but melancholy as if holding a pearl baby.

Hearing this, Xuanyuan's eyebrows touched slightly, and his eyes were full of sadness. It seems that after experiencing so many joys and sorrows, this princess has really grown up a lot, and it has also made her see more clearly: reality always seems to catch people off guard, but lovesickness is always unsatisfactory.