In the Xingqing Palace, Niu Zhaorong's blood splashed warmly on Li Yu's face, and also splashed on the case, dyeing the few white peach blossoms crimson.

The distorted face of the woman in front of her who was gradually getting cold had gradually eased, and her skin began to turn pale due to excessive blood loss, so the rouge and red lips on her face looked extremely thrilling.

Ambition and seemingly easy power drove her crazy, and in this bleak and withered Xingqing Palace, only ambition and hope could prompt her to still dress so brightly and make up so exquisitely.

Li Yu knelt next to Niu Zhaorong's corpse, staring at her face with a sad expression for a long time, perhaps remembering Niu Zhaorong's good past, or perhaps feeling the stumbling over the past few decades, he suddenly fell to the ground and cried loudly.

Nian Yun, the person who had broken through all the masks of beauty, sat coldly like a bystander at the moment, without saying a word.

Niu Zhaorong scolded well, his life was a ridiculous tragedy. He has been a prince for more than 20 years, and he may not know how to be an emperor for a long time. He used silence to protect himself, but he didn't know that everything was a cover-up.

His connivance with the concubines caused the East Palace to be a mess for more than twenty years. His evasion of responsibility and his over-the-top reforms drove the power of the imminent throne away from him.

He hated his favorite concubine for deceiving him and blamed his son for betraying him, but all the suffering and injustice he had endured was not to blame.

After a long time, he raised his face that was a mess of blood and tears, and looked at Nian Yun, his voice was a little hollow, "I have been cautious in this life, and I have only cultivated one heir, I just don't want to see them kill each other......"

Nian Yun sat down, still looking at him calmly.

He slowly got up from the ground, sorted out the hem of his clothes that had already been stained with blood and filth, and slowly sat down, barely maintaining a little dignity and bearing as an emperor.

His gaze swept over the desk, stopping at the piece of paper on which he had inscribed a poem with his own hand, Nian Yun had painted, and was stained by Niu Zhaorong's blood.

After looking at it for a long time, he sighed deeply and looked up from the drawing paper, and there were no tears in his eyes by this time.

"Nianyun, Chun'er didn't disappoint me...... Can you ...... Promise me to take care of the princes for me? ”

Nian Yun clearly realized from his eyes that this was supporting Gu.

She groaned slightly, "As long as they don't have two hearts, I will do my best to protect the descendants of the Li family." ”

"Okay, okay." Li Yu seemed to have exhausted all his strength, sighed heavily, and leaned back, "You go back, I am alone and quiet." ”

Nian Yun stood up, bent down slightly and saluted: "In this way, the Emperor Taishang takes care, Nian Yun retires." ”

A path went straight out, and when he walked to the Agarwood Pavilion, Nian Yun paused slightly, and ordered his followers to use the water of the Dragon Pool to wash the blood on their faces slightly, and then returned to Daming Palace.

A shoulder has just entered the Zuoyintai Gate not far away, and before he arrived at the Penglai Palace, he saw a little palace maid stop the shoulder on the way, and said: "The emperor has been waiting for the mother in the Penglai Hall for half a day." ”

She didn't tell Li Chun when she left, and it was a bit unreasonable to ask him to wait at this time.

At this time, it is no longer possible to talk on the same day as before, and it is not a big deal to ask the king of Guangling County to wait for her for a while, but the emperor has been waiting for her here, and he has waited for so long, not to mention whether he has delayed his business, and the eyes of so many palace maids and eunuchs up and down are enough to kill her.

She asked, "Your Majesty, do you have anything to do with me?" ”

The little palace maid shook her head: "Your Majesty didn't say it." ”

Nianyun was a little apprehensive, and walked into the main hall quickly, and saw Li Chun leaning on the Luohan bed where she often sits, and there were some folds piled up on the desk in front of her. She bowed and saluted: "Your Majesty! ”

Li Chun raised his head, still with a faint smile in his eyes, soft as a pool of spring water, and only smiled and said: "Where have you been, I have been waiting for you for a long time, so I simply moved the important folds to you, and waited for you while looking at the folds." ”

Nian Yun bit his lip for a while before he whispered: "The concubine just went to Xingqing Palace and looked at the emperor." ”

The tranquil pool of spring water was suddenly wrinkled by the sudden wind, and even his brows were twisted. At this time, he saw that there seemed to be blood stains on the skirt of the pothos that was about to avoid him, and even Nianyun had blood on his body, and his brows tightened: "Pothos, what is the clothes?" ”

Nianyun hurriedly stood in front of him: "Something happened just now, wait for the concubine to tell Your Majesty in detail later, Your Majesty will let the concubine and these slaves and maids go to change their clothes first." ”

didn't wait for him to answer, so he quickly pulled the pothos and slipped away.

After a while, he washed his hands and faces, changed into clean clothes with incense, and then walked out, dismissed all the palace people in the main hall, and flatteringly brought refreshments in.

Li Chun is still looking at the excerpts. He is getting busier and busier now, and some old ministers are not interested, and he can explain things in three sentences, so he has to write a book of 10,000 words. Don't talk about looking at the fold, she glanced at the fold with her eyes, and her head was about to get dizzy.

Seeing that she had finally come over, he put down the cinnabar pen and asked, "Is the Emperor alright?" ”

Nianyun bowed slightly, paused and said, "Niu Zhaorong is dead, it was the Emperor Taishang who killed her with his own hands." ”

In fact, his spy Xingqing Palace is not nothing, so as soon as something happened, he had already heard some rumors before she came back.

Nian Yun told him roughly what happened in Xingqing Palace again.

Li Chun smacked his face and said, "Even if she deserves it, my affectionate good father will still regret killing someone with his own hands when he looks back." That's it, anyway, she has also broken away from the Niu family, so there is no need to pursue it, and she still treats the funeral according to Zhaorong's grade. ”

Nian Yun Ying, "In this way, the concubine will go back to discuss with the Ministry of Rites, and she will definitely not embarrass the emperor." ”

Li Chun put the fold in his hand together, put it aside, and said: "There is news from the Criminal Department, and Luo Ling has recruited all of them, and Niu Zhaorong sent someone to contact him." This morning, the rod died. ”

His tone was too flat, and there was no fluctuation at all when he said "cane death". Just as she was assassinated today, seven or eight palace maids and the old eunuch who rescued her, and Niu Zhaorong died in front of her, she still maintained her composure and calmness, and was not too frightened.

In this Daming Palace, his and her hearts have slowly hardened, and their hands have gradually become more and more bloody.

Li Chun stood up and took her somewhat cold hand: "Nianyun, there is some stuffiness in the hall, accompany me to go out for a walk." ”

Nian Yun took off his cloak from the side, tied it for him personally, took another piece of his own bean green cloak, and walked out of the hall with him.

Penglai Hall is not far away, it is the Taiye Pool, and there is a small island in the middle of the lake, which is called Penglai Island.

It was getting late, and there was a slight mist on the lake, and Nianyun suddenly remembered the dragon pond described by the old eunuch in Xingqing Palace.

Emperor Xuanzong is the emperor who knows how to enjoy the most, the nine faucets that spray water spray misty waves, mist and mist, the concubine dances with neon clothes and feathers, Li Taibai fights wine poems with hundreds of poems, and the disciples of the pear garden babble and sing loudly, I don't know what kind of situation it is.

Li Chun looked at Penglai Island with ethereal eyes, and suddenly asked, "I heard that Xingqing Palace also has such a big lake, have you seen it today?" ”

I thought of it with her. Nianyun said: "If you talk about the size of the lake, I'm afraid it's about the same." However, the grand scene of Xingqing Palace is only Emperor Xuanzong's dynasty, and later it has been abandoned in the war, and no one has repaired it, and there are many abandoned grass and wood palaces, which is naturally not comparable to Daming Palace. ”

Li Chun stretched out his hand and pointed to the lotus leaf in the Taiye Pool, "Yes, this lotus flower alone can't be compared to Xingqing Palace." ”

The lotus flowers have withered, but the lotus leaves are still green, but they are a little old-fashioned, and there is no delicate and soft posture, like a half-old dancer with decayed fat powder.

Li Chun said: "During the founding of the country, Gaozu and Taizong both lived in Taiji Palace, and Emperor Gaozong's head wind was very serious, so Empress Tian expanded Daming Palace and asked him to move here. The lotus flowers in the Taiye Pond, I heard that Emperor Gaozong also liked it, so the Empress of Heaven ordered someone to plant it, and it has been some years! Emperor Xuanzong preferred Xingqing Palace, but he only liked the lotus of Taiye Pond. ”

When the old eunuch of Xingqing Palace talked about Xuanzong, he probably missed the once prosperous past. Li Chun mentioned Empress Zetian and Emperor Xuanzong at this time, she didn't know what she meant, so she had to stay by his side silently and wait for his next words.

Li Chun didn't speak for a long time. The two walked slowly along the edge of the lake, and Li Chun sighed as if talking to himself: "The beauty is misleading!" ”

Emperor Gaozong favored Empress Zetian, so that the power fell, and the Wu Zhou Dynasty did not know how many descendants of the Li family were lost. Emperor Xuanzong was originally honored by Su Zongzun as the emperor, and he was inseparable from the favor of Yang Guifei. Now the emperor is also said to be mistaken by Niu Zhaorong to a certain extent.

I don't know if Li Chun sighed whether it was Emperor Gaozong, Emperor Xuanzong, or Emperor Taishang.

But she can't answer this, she is also a harem woman, and unfortunately the Guo family behind her is quite powerful, if she is not careful, maybe one day, she will also become the demon concubine who "misled the country" in the mouth of those old ministers, and become the so-called disaster and red face.

After waiting for a while, Li Chun withdrew his gaze from the lake, sighed, and said, "Nianyun, ten days later is my mother's birthday, and I want to help her make a birthday banquet." You go to Zhang Luo for me to have a banquet, and it will be held in Xingqing Palace, you don't have to be too ostentatious, but the regulations can't be low. ”

Nian Yun agreed, and asked, "Does Your Majesty have anyone you want to invite?" ”

Li Chun thought for a while and said, "The concubines of Xingqing Palace, the concubines of the Emperor Taishang and others are to be invited, and some relatives of my uncle's family who are close to him, as well as several old ministers who have always been close to my father, must be invited. In addition, prepare more wine and food, and the two hundred guards of my father when he was in the East Palace were brought to Xingqing Palace, and they also worked hard, so they should be given some wine and food to them at that time. ”

Nianyun said: "The concubine has written it down." ”