Even if he is unhappy, he still follows Jiang Chuge's habits, Ling Chen is always so caring, Jiang Chuge feels warm.

"Little song. You didn't say what I said yesterday, maybe I was just too excited. I'm sorry for the trouble. In the future, will we still get along as before? ”

Jiang Chuge shook his head, "I have forgotten what you said yesterday. ”

Ling Chen's eyes dimmed, and he returned to his previous image of a jade-faced scholar who was as gentle as jade.

After the two of them finished eating, Jiang Chuge opened his mouth and said,

"What are we going to do after that? Are you really going to the East Hell? ”

"What do you mean, Xiaoge?"

"I think, since Situ Bin of the Northern Desert is dead, then you can leave the rest to your people to take care of. We can go to Dongming and Southern Chu, although their soldiers and horses are all gone, but we still have to gather the political power. ”

"It's just that I can attack Xuanlin first, and I can't bear it a little."

Ling Chen nodded slightly,

"Yes, but Yeluqi is still there in Nanchu, I'm afraid it won't be easy to clean up, so let's go to Dongming."

"It's okay, the relatives of the Eastern Underworld are interfering in politics, we need to borrow the hand of the Eastern Immortal Monarch to get rid of them, and then let Xuanlin ascend the throne smoothly."

"What about Nan Chu?"

"Over there, it's naturally handed over to Xiliang to deal with."

"But Xiliang and Nanchu have both suffered heavy losses this time, so it stands to reason that they should adopt a policy of rest and recuperation, right?"

"Xiliang is almost in your hands, Tuoba Hong is just an empty shelf, and it is not up to them to decide what kind of policy they will adopt."

"Then, what about Qin Ying?"

"He? You can do whatever you like him, what does it have to do with me, only one thing, in the end, you have to hand him over to me to deal with, you can't interfere. ”

Ling Chen nodded, "This is natural, I have already promised you." ”

"Then, let's leave for the East Underworld today."

"Okay, let's go back."

After the two of them had eaten enough, they first went to the town to find two horses, and soon arrived in the land of the Eastern Underworld.

The news of the total annihilation of the 400,000 troops of the Four Kingdoms has already been received, and now, he has no way out, but fortunately, the crown prince Xuanlin came back safe and sound.

The queen naturally got the news and immediately became energetic.

The queen went to the daughter of the Yehnara family, and when the monarch of the Eastern Underworld first became emperor, he married her in order to stabilize the court situation, and both of them were victims of political marriages, and their feelings were not deep. The monarch has more respect for her.

However, at the beginning, although the two had no feelings, they were still harmonious, and later Concubine Hui entered the palace and was deeply favored, and the queen gradually became resentful.

The queen's father, Yehenala Jiang Yigui, was the uncle of the country, and he was the prime minister, and he was in power, and gradually controlled the government, and most of the officials in the court were promoted by him.

Fortunately, the military and government of the Eastern Ming Dynasty were separated, and most of the troops had been lost, and only 20,000 Praetorian Guards had been in the hands of the monarch.

Jiang Chuge and Ling Chen finally arrived at the East Hell, and it was obviously much easier to see the monarch again than the last time, and the guards directly let them in.

On the Xuanzheng Palace, the Eastern Underworld Monarch and Xuanlin are there. A eunuch came in and reported,

"Your Majesty, Jiang Chuge and Ling Chen are waiting outside the door at this time."

Before the monarch could speak, Xuanlin said happily, "This time it was my beautiful sister who rescued me." ”

The king nodded, and replied to the eunuch,

"Call them in."

A man and a woman walked in at the same time, and Xuanlin greeted him excitedly.

"Beautiful sister, Brother Lingchen, it's good that you're back, I'm so worried about you."

"Xuanlin!" The monarch said sternly, "As the lord of the East Palace, the crown prince wants to call himself the king, didn't your mother teach you." ”

Ling Chen took a step forward,

"Your Majesty, although the battle on the border is over, the war at home is not over."

"What do you mean?" The Monarch of the Eastern Underworld narrowed his eyes and looked at them fixedly.

"My Majesty is a headache for my Majesty. How about if we can collect evidence of the Prime Minister's guilt, pull out the thorn in your eye, and ask Your Majesty to help the Demon Sect at that time? ”

The monarch smiled slightly, and snorted softly,

"He has been in charge of the government for many years, and he is deeply rooted, and most of the great yuan in the DPRK is his confidant, and he has always been cautious and careful not to find the mistakes, how can it be so easy to pull out."

"Naturally, Your Majesty won't have to worry about this, we have our own way."

"It's been so many days, and the widow has been looking for his shortcomings, and it's hard to even put an eyeliner in his mansion, what good can you do?"

"Your Majesty, it's hard to find the prime minister's fault, but it's much easier on the queen's side, after all, a woman's jealousy is the most terrible."

After Ling Chen finished speaking, he subconsciously glanced at Jiang Chuge, who did not react, and there was no wave in his eyes.

"If you really have a way to relieve the widow's worries, the widow will naturally not treat you badly."

"In this case, thank you very much, Your Majesty." Ling Chen smiled and continued, "It's just Your Majesty, this method still needs Your Majesty's cooperation. ”

…………………………

Jiang Chuge and Ling Chen seemed to be living a relaxed and leisurely life again.

It's just that in recent days, the monarch has stayed in Concubine Hui's palace for eight out of ten days, and his complexion has become more and more ruddy, and it seems that he has rejuvenated a second spring.

Soon, Concubine Hui was in the limelight for a while, and even the queen was three points shorter, and the wind direction of the entire harem changed suddenly. The queen stayed in the Fengming Hall all day and closed her doors.

A few days later, there was a heavy snowfall in Dongming, and it rained for a day and a night, and when I opened the door, the whole world was already covered in light makeup.

The snow finally stopped, the air was very fresh, and the faint smell of plum blossoms wafted everywhere.

"Niangniang, you haven't been out for a long time, the slave maid has just come back from the plum garden, and the plum blossoms inside are blooming, Niangniang go out for a walk."

The queen's personal maid saw that she had been so sullen, so she thought of a way to let her go out for a walk. The queen doesn't look energetic, the monarch hasn't stepped into the door of the Fengming Hall for several months, although there is not much deep affection between the two people, but she has been spoiling the concubine and throwing her aside.

"The palace is tired, so if you want to go, go by yourself." After speaking, he lay lazily on the couch.

"Oh, Niangniang, we don't snow for a long time, this time it finally snowed so much, and the plum blossoms bloomed again, let's go and take a look, it's not good to stay with your body like this."

The queen still didn't speak, lying on the collapse with her eyes closed, obviously in a very dull mood.

The maid saw that it had no effect for a long time, so she ran out of the door, but after a while she ran back again, and had several branches of plum blossoms in her hand.

The faint fragrance of plum blossoms soon filled the room, and the queen's closed eyes opened.

"It's quiet." The queen stayed in her palace all day long and was about to get moldy, and suddenly saw this proud plum blossom and suddenly became interested, and couldn't stand the urging of everyone, and felt that it was good to go out for a walk, and finally got up.

"There are a lot of troubles, so let's go."

"Yes, sissy." Seeing that the queen was finally willing to go out, the maid was overjoyed and said happily.

The queen casually put on a fur coat on her body, and walked in the direction of the plum garden with two personal maids and the eunuch in charge.

After the heavy snowfall, the scenery of this thousand miles of ice is really pleasant, the queen's mood has improved slightly, to the plum garden, only to see the plum blossoms full of trees competing to bloom, a little bit of red under the white snow looks very noble and moving, the queen walked forward, folded one from the branch, look at the plum blossoms, the mood is finally a little happy.

Just as he was about to turn around, he suddenly heard two palace maids discussing on the side.

"Hey, have you heard, just got off the morning court today, and Your Majesty went to the Qixia Hall of the noble concubine again."

Hearing that it was the voice of the queen, the personal maid beside her hurriedly stepped forward to teach a lesson, but was stopped by the queen. The maid glanced at the queen's suddenly sinking face, and had no choice but to retreat, and the group listened nervously on the other side.

"You still need to say it, the whole palace knows about it, isn't the queen mother now even saving the morning and dusk provinces of all the masters."

The two palace maids were chatting as if no one was there while cleaning, and they didn't notice that the queen and the others were listening softly on the other side.

"Your Majesty has always spoiled Concubine Hui so much, I'm afraid you can't even forget which way the door of Fengming Hall opens. If I were the queen's mother, I would be scared to death, how could I still be willing to go out to meet people. ”

"Yes, what kind of treasured jewels are sent to the Qixia Palace, and I never go to the queen's palace on a big day like the fifteenth day of the new year, in my opinion, the emperor has almost forgotten that there is a queen in our harem."

"If you want me to say, there is a reason why the concubine is favored, after all, she gave birth to the only prince for our majesty, and the prince is obedient and sensible."

"But the concubine is really good-looking and has a good personality, so the queen is ......"

"What's wrong with Hongu?" The queen couldn't listen to it anymore, but the tone of the first sentence that suddenly opened her mouth made people unable to hear the emotion. As she spoke, the queen sent a stool to sit on it.

"Bengong, people are old and yellow? Or is he irritable and jealous? At this point, it suddenly became cold and cold.

The two palace maids were so frightened that they threw their brooms and knelt on the ground, kowtowing their heads like earth.

"The queen mother, the queen mother atoned for her sins, the slaves and maids lost their words for a while, and begged the queen mother for forgiveness."

"Atonement? Hmph, as a palace maid, she dared to talk about the queen behind her back, and said disrespectful words, someone came, pulled out their tongues, and killed them immediately! The queen threw the plum blossom in her hand, and her emotions were furious.

"Are you all dead? It's not going to be dealt with by this palace soon! ”

The maid beside him hurriedly asked the eunuch to pull the person aside and start the execution, the two palace maids widened their eyes in horror, and kept shouting that the queen spared her life, but they still watched their tongues being cut off. Then little by little the struggle stopped.

The queen has always been ruthless, sitting on the stool and quietly watching the blood of the two palace maids flowing all over the ground, more bright red than plum blossoms, in stark contrast to the snow on the ground, but she still felt that she was still not relieved, and she flicked her sleeves and returned to her Fengming Pavilion.

The news that the queen had killed the two palace maids and pulled out their tongues soon reached the ears of Jiang Chuge and Ling Chen, and after she heard about it, she smiled indifferently and said to Ling Chen beside her,

"The fish is going to be hooked, Ling Chen, how about we make a bet?"

Ling Chen smiled, "With Xiaoge here, it can always make people sit back and relax." ”

Jiang Chuge also smiled and said to himself, "Today's snow is really heavy, and it often snows in the Northern Desert." ”

After the queen returned to the palace, she wrote a letter home to inform her prime minister's father, and she really didn't want to go down to the queen like this.

The monarch of the Eastern Underworld also heard about this, but he didn't say anything, and gave a lot of treasures to Concubine Hui to use in shock, and after the queen knew about it, she brushed her sleeves away again.