The two entered the house one after the other, Cen Yin sat down in the outer room, and Feng Yan entered the inner room of the study, and after a while, he took a huge piece of parchment from the inner room.

Feng Yan spread the parchment paper on a rosewood bookcase, which was a map of Dasheng Nanjing and Nanhuai.

There are deep creases left on the map, and it is clear that it has been opened and folded again and again.

The two glanced at each other, and Feng Yan pointed to the south of Dian Prefecture on the map and said, "Big brother, look here...... The main force of the Nanhuai army is still concentrated in the three cities of Yunnan. ”

As he spoke, his fingers moved to the southeast of Dian Prefecture again, "I want to take a shortcut from here to Nanhuai," his fingertips stayed in this position for two breaths, and then slowly moved south, "However, the biggest problem now is that this area is plagued by miasma." ”

"If you can avoid the miasma here, you can attack the hinterland of Nanhuai before the Nanhuai army in Dian Prefecture returns."

The Southern Frontier Army has now conquered the city all the way and recaptured most of the cities in Dian Prefecture, which can be called a breakthrough, and it could have beaten the Nanhuai army out of Dian Prefecture in one go. In order to divide Nanhuai's forces, they deliberately asked General Yan's troops to suspend the offensive and stalemate with the Nanhuai people on the border.

Cen Yin lowered his eyes and looked at the map, thoughtful, "This plan is feasible." ”

As for miasma......

Cen Yin's slender and thick eyelashes trembled slightly, and her eyes flashed, "Ah Yan, your little girl has a wide range of problems, you might as well ask her." ”

Thinking of Duanmu Fei, Feng Yan's eyes were shining, and he nodded straight and said, "Well, my family Zhen Zhen is the smartest!" ”

Looking at Feng Yan's complacent look, the corners of Cen Yin's lips curled, and he said in his heart: Feng Yan's little girl really has a seven-trick exquisite heart, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, astrology and arithmetic, and even the fire gun can be improved to that point. I don't know what blessings Duanmuxian accumulated in his previous life to have such a ...... Two granddaughters!

Thinking of Duanmujun, there seemed to be a glimmer of light circulating in Cen Yin's ghostly eyes, soft as spring.

Feng Yan looked at him steadily, put away the smile on the corner of his mouth, and the whole person looked serious.

"Big brother, ...... you" Feng Yan looked directly into Cen Yin's eyes and calmly threw out an astonishing sentence, "What do you think of your sister?" ”

When he saw Cen Yin in Daqing Town yesterday, Feng Yan felt that something was wrong, and after thinking about it carefully, he understood, and even figured out some things that he thought was strange before but didn't care too much about.

Perhaps, the eldest brother has always taken such good care of Zhen Zhen, and the real reason is also because of Zhen Zhen's sister.

Righteous sister.

At this time, when Feng Yan thought about these two words again, he felt that there was a bit of profound meaning.

"......" Cen Yin avoided Feng Yan's gaze, and looked at the map on the desk again, and under the bookcase, his right hand on his knee curled up and clenched into a fist.

"Squeak!"

Suddenly, a gust of wind blew the half-open window sash violently, which was particularly harsh in the silent study at the moment.

The sun outside is rising higher and higher, higher and higher......

When Cen Yin left from the Eldest Princess of Anping's mansion, it was already two hours later, and the bright sun at noon hung high in the blue sky.

Cen Yin now holds the power of the court and politics in his hands, and his every move naturally cannot escape the eyes of others, and from the moment he stepped into the princess's mansion in the morning, it caused an uproar.

More and more eyes were fixed on the princess's mansion until Cen Yin came out of it at noon.

Cen Yin personally went to the princess's mansion and spread all over the capital in half a day, and set off a storm in the capital, and for a while, all the mansions were secretly speculating whether the eldest princess of Anping had taken refuge in Cen Yin.

Most people think they're telling the truth.

No wonder Cen Yin would give Feng Yan such a good errand, now that the overall situation in the south has been decided, Feng Yan went to the south this time to be a white wolf with empty gloves, waiting for Bai to pick up military merits.

Various speculations emerge one after another, some people speculate that Feng Yan and the fourth girl Duanmu are engaged, and the Duanmu family is the eldest prince's foreign family, so Cen Yin is likely to support the eldest prince;

Some people think otherwise, a person like Cen Yin who is obsessed with power, for him, instead of choosing one of the two adult princes, the eldest prince and the fourth prince, it is better to push a young prince in infancy to be a puppet, and Cen Yin can be the regent of the dynasty and hold the power firmly in the palm of his hand;

There are also some people who are active and secretly make up their minds in their hearts, no matter which prince ascends the throne, they only need to show goodwill to Cen and show loyalty.

In the midst of different opinions, Cen Yin set the day for Feng Yan to set off for the south, September 30.

This time, most of the courtiers were honest and just quietly watched the situation.

Only the four princes and the Chengen Gong party still do not give up.

Gong Chengen first proposed that Shangzhiwei should command Tongzhi Yang Zhe to go to the south to take over the power, and make Feng Yan his deputy.

Cen Yin directly dismissed it.

Cheng Engong then took a step back and proposed to let Yang Zhe and Feng Yan go to the south together, and the two of them would share the power regardless of priority.

Cen Yin said that one army cannot have two commanders.

Cheng Engong could only retreat again, saying that he wanted Yang Zhe to be Feng Yan's deputy.

This time, Cen Yin didn't pay attention to it at all.

Cheng Engong's anger was already rising, and finally exploded completely.

So, Cheng Engong knelt directly outside the gate of the Heart Cultivation Palace, pointing to the sky and crying:

"Your Majesty, wake up!"

"In the court, now the traitors are in charge, controlling the government, taking advantage of the emperor's serious illness, they wantonly fight against the party and kill the loyal and good!"

"Your Majesty, if you don't wake up again, this court will turn the sky upside down!"

“……”

Cheng Engong wailed loudly, one after another more poignantly, and spread throughout the entire Heart Cultivation Palace.

Not only the palace maids in the Heart Cultivation Hall heard it, but also the cabinet ministers in the main hall.

The emperor has been seriously ill for more than a month, and these princes of the clan and important ministers of the cabinet will come to the Yangxin Palace every ten days to visit the emperor to show their loyalty to the king.

The faces of several cabinet ministers present at this moment were really not good-looking, and they looked at each other, and they all knew that this Cheng'en Gong was howling to the emperor, and it was clear that he was howling to them.

Cheng Engong came here on purpose to block them!!

The ministers of the clan in the Heart Cultivation Hall had different expressions, and some people secretly said that they were unlucky, such as Qin Wenshuo, the left attendant of the Criminal Department, because the Shangshu of the Criminal Department went to the north, he was "unavoidable" to temporarily take the position of the Shangshu of the Criminal Department; Someone quietly went to see Duanmu Xian's face, wanting to see if he would respond; Some people also speculate that there may be more "excitement" next.

Sure enough—

It didn't take long for a messy footsteps and the sound of the waiter saluting outside: "Queen Mother! ”

Several shrewd officials secretly exchanged glances and looked out of the hall one by one.

The queen wearing a phoenix crown and wearing a Zhai robe walked towards this side with a group of palace maids and attendants, and the bright yellow canopy like auspicious clouds above swayed in the wind.

Soon, the queen stopped under the eaves outside the hall and said to Cheng En, who was kneeling on the ground: "Brother, why are you kneeling here, get up quickly!" ”

Cheng Engong's eyes were red from crying, and he wiped the tears that didn't exist at the corners of his eyes with his cuffs, and choked up: "Queen Mother, I can't afford it!" ”

"Now that the court is in charge, the villain is ambitious, the dynasty is not right, and the century-old foundation of the Dasheng Dynasty is about to be destroyed by the hands of traitors, and the ministers are really heartbroken!"

He looks like a loyal minister who "does his best for the country and the people".

The queen frowned, her face sinking like water.

She didn't persuade again, and continued to walk towards the Heart Cultivation Palace.

Since the queen is here, the princes and ministers present naturally can't sit still, and they all stand up one by one to greet the queen.

"See the Queen." Everyone bowed to the queen in unison.

The queen stopped a few steps away, looked at everyone coldly, and did not say no courtesy as usual, but reprimanded Duanmuxian and the others: "As cabinet ministers, you should be for the country, the king and the people, but what about you? What is the reason for being cronyistic and ignoring the social affairs of the country!! ”

"What is it for, so old, still kneeling outside?! It's not for the sake of maintaining the discipline of the imperial court, but for the sake of royal orthodoxy! ”

"But what about you? The Lu of the Eater, can there be a matter of loyalty to the King?! ”

The queen's words were sharper and more high, and she kept talking like a cannonball, and her expression was impassioned.

"The imperial sister-in-law is right." A flat male voice immediately chimed in.

The ministers in the hall glanced in the direction of the voice, and the person who spoke was Prince An, who was also the emperor's half-brother.

Obviously, he has now joined the camp of the Empress and the Cheng'en Mansion.

Prince An's eyes flashed, and he looked at Duanmu Xian meaningfully, "Duanmu Shoufu, the imperial brother believes in you, so he entrusted you with a heavy responsibility and appointed you as the first assistant!" But what about you? Are you worthy of the trust that the royal brother has placed in you?! ”

The corners of Duanmu Xian's mouth twitched almost invisibly, and he also saw that this Prince An was just a bully who was afraid of the hard, and dared to reprimand himself, but he didn't dare to mention Cen Yin for half a word.

Seeing that Duanmu Xian didn't speak, the queen gave Liao Yushi in the crowd another look.

Liao Yushi cleared his throat, came out of the crowd, and said, "The queen mother and the grandfather of the country are right......"

Before he finished speaking, he heard a feminine and familiar male voice accompanied by the sound of the curtain coming from the direction of the dormitory on the right: "What's so noisy?" ”

In just six words, Liao Yushi instantly lost his voice, and forgot all about what he was going to say later.

Not only him, but all the ministers present were holding their breath, some were waiting to see a good show, and some were secretly glad that Fang had not had time to say anything.

The temperature in the hall dropped sharply, and the air seemed to be stagnant.

Cen Yin, who was wearing a red unicorn robe, walked unhurriedly towards the queen, stopped three steps away, and arched his hand at the queen casually, "Queen Mother." ”

"Lord Cen Governor." The queen stroked her sleeves and looked at Cen Yin gracefully.

Seeing that Prince An and the others didn't speak when they saw Cen Yin, the queen wrinkled her eyebrows slightly, and secretly said in her heart that these people were really useless, so she had to go out herself.

"Lord Cen Du, this palace heard that you want to let Ah Yan go to the southern border to take charge of the southern territory, and this palace thinks it is inappropriate." The queen got straight to the point, "Although Ah Yan has fought in the north for a few years before, he is too young after all, even if Lord Cen intends to promote Ah Yan, according to the palace, he has to send another older and stable person to watch, so as not to make Ah Yan's young man unreliable!" ”

"Yang Zhe, the commander of the Shangzhi Guard recommended by Cheng Engong, was born in the general gate and has made great achievements, so he is a good candidate."

The queen raised her chin slightly and said in a condescending tone.

After the queen's words fell, the palace of heart cultivation fell silent.

One, two, three......

The others almost didn't dare to breathe, and they all secretly glanced at Cen Yin's face, and saw that his thin red lips were slightly upturned, but they felt furious in their hearts.

"Recommended by Cheng Engong?" Cen Yin asked lightly, raising his sword eyebrows, as if he was asking casually, but as if he didn't know about it at all, "Then I'm going to ask Cheng Engong." ”

Cen Yin calmly walked towards the gate of the Heart Cultivation Palace, and the smile on the corner of his lips became stronger.

This scene made the hearts of other people present even more uncertain, especially Prince An and Liao Yushi, who had just spoken, and they were afraid that Cen Yin would not "misunderstand" them.

As soon as Cen Yin went out, the others also followed.

"Grandpa Guo, why are you kneeling here?" Cen looked at Cheng Engong who was kneeling under the eaves with a smile, and said condescendingly, "Could it be that you are 'kneeling'?" ”

In the backlight, his beautiful face was a little blurred in the shadows of the eaves, and his narrow eyes became deeper and darker, with a condescending momentum.

Cheng Engong was heartburned by Cen Yin's eyes, his chest rose and fell violently, he gritted his teeth hatefully, but his face was righteous and awe-inspiring, and he raised his voice and said angrily:

"Cen Yin, don't be too arrogant! The surname of this Dasheng is Mu, not Cen. ”

"There are still so many civil and military ministers of the imperial court here, and there are so many princes of the clan, the emperor is in the palace, and the imperial court is not something that you Cen Yin can cover the sky with one hand!"

"Since the emperor became seriously ill, your party has fought against differences, and nepotism has made Dasheng's Jiangshan Sheji a miasma!"

The more Cheng Engong spoke, the more excited he became, Cen Yin didn't speak, and the other people around him didn't speak, and only Cheng Engong's voice was left in front of this Heart Cultivation Palace.

Cheng Engong saw Cen Yin silently, thinking that he was forced to have nothing to say by himself, and his expression became more and more impassioned, his eyes were red, and his head was hot.

Cheng Engong knelt on the ground and raised his hand to Cen Yin, and scolded angrily: "Cen Yin, if you still ignore the Dasheng Jiangshan Sheji so much, this father ...... My father died headlong in front of this Heart Nourishing Palace!! ”

After the last word "before" fell, there was a silence around.

Suddenly there was a chuckle in the condensed atmosphere, so light that it was almost inaudible.

Hearing this laughter in the ears of Duanmuxian, You Junji and others, the hairs all over his body stood upside down, and he lowered his eyes silently.

"Okay." Cen Yin said lightly.

It's done! Cheng Engong was so excited that he almost didn't get up from the ground.

He didn't notice at all that the ministers around him looked at him with a hint of pity in their eyes.

"Cheng Engong, if you want to bump into it, just hit it." Cen Yin dusted off his robe and said lightly, "If you can splash three feet of blood and die here, this seat will consider your proposal." ”

While speaking, Cen Yin was smiling slightly, as if he was saying something insignificant.

"You ......" Cheng Engong's eyes were almost jaw-dropping, he couldn't bear it anymore, he wanted to get up from the ground, but he knelt for too long, his knees were numb, and he was only half an inch off the ground, and his knees fell back again.

Of course, the queen in the Heart Cultivation Hall also heard these words, where could she bear this breath.

"Cen Yin, you are too presumptuous!"

The queen strode over and scolded dissatisfiedly, the green tendons on her forehead twitching slightly.

Presumptuous, it's so presumptuous!

This Cen Yin ...... Does he still have his own queen in his eyes?!

Cen Yin stood calmly with his hands in his hands, looked in the direction of the queen, and sighed softly, "The harem is not allowed to interfere in politics...... Come on, don't 'invite' the queen mother back. ”

Cen Yin deliberately increased the volume slightly on the word "please", the smile on his face was deeper, and his face was more radiant than flowers, but no one else around him dared to look directly at his face.

Duanmuxian and the other ministers stood silently to the side, looking at their noses and noses, as if they didn't exist at all, and wished that Cen Yin and the queen would forget about them.

Prince An and the others wanted to speak and stopped, and after hesitating for a while, they still didn't dare to speak.

"......" The queen was first shocked and then angry, and wanted to say to Cen Yin that you dare, but when the words came to her mouth, she swallowed them back.

Others don't dare, but Cen Yin does.

The queen couldn't help but think of the last time she asked the big eunuch and Mama Jin to go to Huilan Yuan to spread the decree, but not only was the edict intercepted, but even Mama Jin was sent to the Huanyi Bureau.

Cen Yin even dared to arbitrarily intercept Yizhi, what else did he dare not do!

As if to verify the queen's thoughts, three or four Tsing Yi attendants immediately responded: "Yes, Overseer." ”

The chamberlains walked towards the queen with a smile, and one of them stretched out his hand to the queen to make a request, "Queen Mother, please!" ”

"You ......"

Lan Hui, the big palace maid beside the queen, stepped forward and wanted to scold, but she said two words, but was stopped by another short and fat chamberlain on the side.

"Miss Lanhui." The short and fat chamberlain looked at Lan Hui with a smile and did not hide the threat in his expression.

They are not good at being rude to the queen, but the people around the queen have nothing to scruple about, like Mama Jin is still light to be sent to the Huanyi Bureau, if you give a crime casually, drag it down and hit the board, if you are killed, you deserve it.

Lan Hui was afraid, shrunk back, and called to the queen in a low voice: "Niangniang......" The hero does not suffer the loss in front of him.

The queen's graceful face was blue, white, and red.

Now that she is leaving like this, she feels that she has lost face, but ......

The short and fat chamberlain smiled and took another step closer to Lan Hui, who was so frightened that she looked at the queen in distress.

The queen's lips were tightly pursed into a straight line, and the silk handkerchief in her hand was clenched tightly.

Of course, she knew that Cen Yin was threatening her, but she couldn't do anything about him.

If Cen Yin is allowed to get rid of all the people who serve around him, then who will be loyal to her as the queen in the future, who will take her seriously?!

So, will she still have a foothold in the harem in the future?!

In the future, will those harem concubines still take her as the queen in their eyes?!

The eyes of everyone around looked at the queen with different expressions, including Cheng Engong.

There was a dead silence again inside and outside the Heart Cultivation Palace, and the air seemed to be about to freeze.

The queen's face became more and more ugly, so gloomy that she was about to drip water, and suddenly, she shook her sleeves sharply and strode away.

The palace maids and attendants brought by the queen hurriedly followed, and the three Tsing Yi attendants also followed, "Gong" to send the queen away.

The surroundings suddenly became a lot empty.

"Queen...... Queen Mother! Cheng Engong was dumbfounded, he didn't expect the queen to leave him like this.

Duanmu Xian in the hall looked at Cheng Engong, who was kneeling on the ground dumbfounded, a faint sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he said in his heart: It's really overwhelming! Act recklessly!

Cen Yin carelessly stroked his sleeves and said lightly: "Chengengong, since you like to kneel so much, just kneel here and think clearly, do you still want to bump?!" ”

Cen looked at him with a faint smile.

"......" Cheng Engong's mouth opened and closed, completely unable to understand how things were going in this direction.

Of course he didn't want to bump into it, this was just a means to force Cen Yin to bow his head by using his strength.

Obviously, he planned well, as long as they were united, they would definitely be able to force Cen Yin to retreat, but the queen and Prince An were all strong on the outside and inside, and after facing Cen Yin, they all became dumb and didn't dare to speak!

"Don't worry, just think about it slowly." Cen Yin said as he slowly walked down the stone steps in front of the Heart Cultivation Palace, and instructed a middle-aged waiter, "You just guard here, wait for Cheng Engong to think it carefully, if you don't think it through, Cheng Engong doesn't have to go back." ”

From beginning to end, his voice was so unhurried, neither light nor heavy, as if nothing could move him.

"That's right."

When Cen Yin walked down the last stone step, he suddenly stopped, and looked back at Prince An and Liao Yushi, "Lord Wang, Lord Liao, do you want to kneel together and think slowly?" ”

Prince An and Liao Yushi's eyes were slightly open, and they were speechless.

Without waiting for them to speak, Cen Yin turned around again and left leisurely.

This time, he never looked back.

The other princes and ministers in the rear all looked at each other with complicated expressions.

In the silence, Duanmuxian and You Junji exchanged a look, and the two took the lead to follow, and the others were only one step behind, and they all followed quickly one after another.

Prince An and Liao Yushi fell behind, wiped their cold sweat, and gave Cheng Engong a sympathetic look, they also wanted to leave, but they were blocked by a few chamberlains.

The middle-aged waiter waved his hand at them in a weird manner, and said, "Lord Wang, Lord Liao, the overseer has an order, so let the two of you kneel here and think clearly before leaving!" ”

Prince An wanted to have a seizure, but he didn't have a chance at all, and several chamberlains immediately swarmed up, firmly restrained him and Liao Yushi, and forcefully pressed the two to their knees.

At the same time, the others gradually drifted away, and the palace of heart cultivation was empty inside and out, leaving only Cheng Engong, Prince An, and Liao so the three of them knelt there upright......

Cen Yin returned to the celebrant supervisor, and the others also went out of their own ways, the princes and ministers left the palace, and several cabinet elders went to the cabinet to deal with official business.

The official documents of the cabinet were piled up one after another, as if they could never finish reading, but Duanmuxian was in a surprisingly good mood today, and the corners of his raised mouth almost never fell off all day.

Cheng Engong has been jumping up and down all day long to make trouble with their cabinet, saying for a while that he would not let Feng Yan go to the south, and then recommending that Yang Zhe to go to the south instead of Feng Yan, hum, I really think I am something, I obviously don't know anything about the political affairs of the court, and I dare to meddle in the political affairs of the court?!

He still dares to learn from those advisors and imperial history to hit the pillar threat?!

Duanmu Xian pursed his lips disdainfully, he knew that a clown like Cheng Engong really dared to hit the pillar! In the end, he just knelt for a while and pretended to be sick and fell......

Hmph, what a humiliation.

Duanmu Xian was in a good mood, so he simply got off the government on time, and Shen Chu returned to Duanmu Mansion.

Dismounted at the Yimen, Duanmuxian casually instructed a porter: "Go and call Her Royal Highness the Fourth Princess and the Fourth Girl." ”

"......," the porter glanced in a certain direction with a slight hesitation.

Duanmu Xian saw it keenly, and asked casually, "Are they not there?" He thought it was the two little girls who went out of the house to play again.

The porter hurriedly replied, "Old lady, Her Royal Highness the Fourth Princess and the Fourth Girl have just gone to the stables. ”

Duanmu Xian wanted to go back to the study, but when he heard her like this, he temporarily changed his mind and simply went to the stable.

The stables are built on the southeast side of Duanmu Mansion, next to a row of evergreen camphor trees.

The autumn breeze brought the peculiar smell of the camphor tree and the crisp and cheerful laughter of the two girls from afar.

"Cousin Scarlet, isn't it cute for you to see the way you eat grass?"

"I feel like it's a little bit older than it was when I first brought it home."

"Feipian, don't tease Qingguang, it's still small."

"Feipian, Qingguang is your sister! Your sister should look like a sister......"

“……”

The two little girls were talking and laughing, and their voices echoed in the air like silver bells, which made Duanmuxian laugh when he heard it, and his mood became more pleasant.

Duanmuxian walked slowly towards the two little girls with his hands behind his back, and the cousins were laughing and teasing a white foal in the open space outside the stable. Feipian circled around them for a while, and then ran away again.

Duanmuxian stared at the skinny foal that was not yet the size of a deer, and suddenly remembered that the two girls had mentioned it before, and they had bought a foal at the horse market in Fangjian Town.

It turned out to be this one.

It's no wonder that these two girls will be regarded as wronged.

------Off topic------

I forgot to set the release time yesterday, and I forgot to check if it was released on time in the morning, and it ended up being late......