Empress Dowager Guo used some porridge and felt that she had regained some strength, so she got up and went to see Li Yi.

Because Li Yi was injured in his arm, the imperial doctors temporarily placed him in the Long Pavilion for the convenience of treatment.

When Empress Dowager Guo went, Li Yi was leaning on the bed, with a book on her lap, and asked a little eunuch to read it to him. Seeing that the Queen Mother was coming, she struggled to get up to salute, but the Queen Mother Guo raised her hand to stop it.

She retreated from the crowd, and when there were only the two of them left in the house, Empress Dowager Guo asked: "Yi'er, you honestly told the mourning family, what happened on the terrace of the Long Pavilion?" ”

Li Yi lowered her head, still looking wooden, and replied unhurriedly: "Back to the Queen Mother, Yi didn't know, when Yi came, I saw the Queen Mother fainting on the terrace, Yi wanted to call someone, but the threshold was too high, and I accidentally even fell and injured myself." ”

"You're lying! It wasn't like that that day, the mourning family was on the terrace with you, and then the railing of the terrace broke, and the mourning family stumbled and fell! What happened later, why did the mourners faint on the terrace, you saw it, right? ”

Empress Dowager Guo was aggressive, and suddenly took advantage of his unpreparedness, reached out and grabbed Li Yi's right hand and brought it to the front.

She remembered that at that time, when Li Yi reached out to hold her in a hurry, her long nails scratched a mark on the back of Li Yi's hand.

Empress Dowager Guo pointed to the mark on the back of his hand: "You say, how did this seal come about, do you dare to say that it wasn't scratched by the nails of the mourning family?" ”

Li Yi looked up at her a little blankly, "Back to the Queen Mother, when Yi fell, there happened to be a small pebble next to the threshold, and when Yi fell, the back of her hand wiped it on it......"

He was born with a somewhat dull appearance, which was very suitable for lying, and it was impossible to find a flaw. Empress Dowager Guo couldn't, so she had to ask the palace people to take good care of her, and turned around and walked out of the long pavilion.

This kid is obviously deliberately concealing, but what is he hiding, why did he make up such a long list of excuses to hide this matter, and how did the other party manage to keep him tight-lipped?

All this is like a huge mystery, and this mystery appeared in the Daming Palace, which also made her a little uneasy.

But fortunately, the other party didn't seem to have any ill will towards her, and he saved her life.

So after several days of checking without finding any clues, she slowly began to shift her focus to other places.

She admires Li Yi a lot, this child, although he has obvious hostility towards her, but at that moment, he will come to the rescue, which shows that this child has an imperial demeanor. Li Heng's condition continued to worsen, and there was still no good news from Imperial Doctor Liang, in such a situation, Empress Dowager Guo thought about it for a long time and finally made a decision.

When the injuries of the four princes were almost healed, a decree was issued in the Daming Palace, and the four princes Li Yi was canonized as the King of Light, renamed Li Chen, and allowed him to go to the court every day as a prince to listen to politics.

This is undoubtedly a huge stone cast on the calm lake of Daming Palace, which caused huge waves. The civil and military officials did not get more news before this, but on this day they were suddenly stunned.

Everyone knows that the Zheng family seduced the first emperor in the Penglai Palace of the Empress Dowager Guo and became pregnant with the fourth prince. After Zheng became pregnant, the first emperor did not want to see her, so after the Empress Dowager Guo gave birth to the fourth prince, she ordered her to move to the Buddhist hall of Taiji Palace to live, and almost never saw the first emperor again.

From this point of view, the resentment between the Zheng family and the Empress Dowager Guo is by no means a day or two. So why did Empress Dowager Guo suddenly show special interest in the four princes at this time, and even canonized him as a prince?

If King Liguang is the crown prince, it will not be beneficial to Guotai and the Guo family. Empress Dowager Guo has been immersed in the palace for decades, and it is impossible not to understand this truth, so why did she make such a decision?

Everyone's speculation has not been confirmed by new confirmation, and Empress Dowager Guo is still listening to the government as usual and deploying state affairs. And His Majesty the Emperor somehow seems to have begun to be a little careless about government affairs. The excerpts handed over, ten out of ten ** were approved by the Empress Dowager Guo, and His Majesty the Emperor replied very few.

Could it be that the canonization of the four princes is just a pretense, and there will be another Empress Zetian in this dynasty?

So some courtiers tentatively went to the fold and begged to posthumously crown Guo Hua, the acting prince of the country, as the king of the county.

If Empress Dowager Guo effectively imitated the intention of the Empress Wu, she should not refuse this proposal. After all, it is indispensable to have too high a background before officially ascending the throne.

But unexpectedly, Empress Dowager Guo rejected this proposal, and even approved it very clearly, saying that she was a woman and a Taoist family, and she should not do this kind of thing that made people all over the world criticize, and the implication was that she would not follow the example of Empress Wu to call the dynasty.

Although Empress Dowager Guo was courteous to King Guang, she didn't seem to show special favor or favor, and was even quite harsh. For some of the immature political opinions he put forward, Empress Dowager Guo even criticized them mercilessly.

This made all the ministers feel confused, could it be that the queen mother canonized him as a prince, really just because she remembered that he was also the son of the first emperor, so she gave him a deserved favor?

And a few days later, another incident happened, which caused a great shock among the government and the opposition, and even almost defeated the Empress Dowager Guo.

Guo led his troops to Chengde's side of the expedition, and there have been several head-to-head confrontations with the rebels. However, because the number of troops sent by the imperial court was really disparity with the rebels, they always lost more and won less.

And in a fierce war, Guo Yuma, who was the main general, disappeared.

Missing on the battlefield, this is no less than a bolt from the blue for Empress Dowager Guo.

Since she came to Chang'an at the age of thirteen, Guo Yan has been one of her closest people, and has been helping her and supporting her for decades.

When she was thirteen years old, it was under his planning that she came to Chang'an City.

Before her wedding, he asked her if she wanted to run away from the marriage, whether she wanted to leave, he wanted to leave her the opportunity to be free, and all the consequences, he may have thought about it at that time, and he would bear it.

When she was fourteen years old, she married into the East Palace, and then asked him if he would like to marry a sister-in-law who had a good relationship with her, and he said, if you are willing to let me marry her, then I will marry.

Later, he stood behind her all the time, and he said, "I'm here."

In this life, if she really couldn't live with someone, it must be the third brother, she relied on him so much, but she never repaid him. She knew that his feelings for her were no longer simple brother and sister feelings, but she could only deliberately distance herself from him and never see him again.

She never thought about how to repay it, because she probably didn't have the opportunity to repay it in her life, and she couldn't return it.

Because he is a concubine, and because he is the elder brother of Guo Guifei, who favors the harem, so in this life, his talent and ambition have never been truly displayed, and he has to hide his clumsiness and keep his eyes open.

Third brother, if you can start over again, I will definitely no longer let you be a colt, I am willing to stand behind you, watch you rise to the top, and watch you play your own eloquence.

Empress Dowager Guo was silent and did not want to see anyone after hearing the news, and Fennel followed her from a distance, watching her slowly walk to the stable.

The snow was old, his hair was already scorched and mottled, and there was almost no way for anyone to ride it on. As a horse, living to this age can only be regarded as surviving. In fact, since when His Majesty had just ascended the throne, Xue Xue had already begun to be powerless, so when she went out on the expedition, it was no longer Xue Xue that she was riding.

But it was always well kept in the stable, and she always remembered that it was the third brother who brought it to the East Palace and gave it to her.

Nian Yun walked over, hugged his old comrade-in-arms, and tears couldn't stop falling.

Third brother, you have to come back well, you will definitely come back well, right, how could you leave me alone?

Li Chun has already left me, but you won't, right, you tell me, you won't leave me alone, right?

Empress Dowager Guo cried so much in the stable, this most noble woman in the Tang Dynasty seemed to have no other way but to cry at this time. First her husband had an accident, then her son was seriously ill, and now even her most reliable brother had an accident, and the successive blows almost completely crushed her.

The tears of this life seem to have dried up in the past few days. The people around her left her one after another, but thousands of people in the empire still had to rely on her slender arms.

Fennel didn't dare to persuade her, but Li Heng heard the news and rushed to help her mother back to Penglai Palace.

Empress Dowager Guo sat down in that large chair, and the bearskin on the chair was incomparably smooth under her years of caressing.

There are several spiritual positions hidden in her bedroom, sister, Li Xian, Li Yi, and Ning'er.

But she never wrote Li Chun's name, she saw a person with a vague face, and she never believed that it was really her majesty.

Last time, she didn't believe it, and this time, she didn't believe it either.

She sat in the big chair for a long time, until it was dark, and then she got up. Fennel came in with ginseng soup, she didn't look at it, raised her neck and drank it dry, and ordered: "Princess Xuan Hanyang and the county lord of Rong'an enter the palace." ”

I'm afraid these two won't be much better at this time, Fennel was afraid that she would be sad when she saw it, so she persuaded: "It's dark today, Niang Niang will rest early, and I'll announce it tomorrow?" ”

Empress Dowager Guo shook her head slowly: "No need, I think they are also sleepless nights, so it's better to be a companion." ”

Fennel had to order someone to announce the decree and summoned Li Chang and Xue Chuer into the palace.

Sure enough, these two have also gotten the news, their eyes are red and swollen like peaches, even if they put on gorgeous clothes and apply heavy fat powder in order to enter the palace, they still can't hide the grief on their faces.