The Duan family has been a royal family for generations, and this throne has been sitting for several generations, not to mention a history of hundreds of years, but it is only in the Duan Emperor's generation that it gradually began to decline, for what purpose did Beigong Chengyan destroy the Duan family? Is it really not just because they want to take the throne?

Qingyue was stunned by Xia Xiaoxiao's sudden question, and then said embarrassedly, "Niangniang, you ask the slave maid about this, how does the slave and maid know?" Besides, this is all nonsense, who should take you so seriously. ”

"Do you know how these things spread?"

Xia Xiaoxiao asked unrelentingly.

Qingyue shook her head, "After all, these things are about the royal reputation, I met Wuxi this morning, and I heard that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is also worried about this matter." ”

Xia Xiaoxiao paused for a while, looked out the window, and the hibiscus tree in the courtyard was also withered, she couldn't help sighing, let alone Beigong Yu, she thought about these troubles for Beigong Yu, and she felt that one head and two were big.

I was bored in the twilight pavilion, and I wanted to go to the imperial study to find Beigong Yu and ask him to have mercy and let him go out of the palace to breathe, but when I looked back and thought of the situation in the palace at this time, coupled with the fact that Beigong Yu had a lot of trivial matters, I was embarrassed to bother him again, so as not to accidentally make him unhappy and punish her with a few boards, then it would be worth the loss.

The steps to the imperial study stopped, and he wandered around the palace blindly.

Xia Xiaoxiao has been in the palace for three years, but he rarely really walks around the palace, he used to run outside the palace when he had nothing to do, but now it is not easy to get out of the palace.

She began to miss her favorite sugar gourd, as well as the roast chicken and her daughter Red sold in the street inns.

Turning around, walking through those prosperous palaces, before he knew it, Xia Xiaoxiao walked to a side hall quite far away from Chenxiao Palace.

The side hall is relatively close to the Huanyi Fang, and there are some miscellaneous shops around, if you don't pay attention, you can't see that it is a palace at all.

Xia Xiaoxiao looked at the maids who came and went, all of them holding everything in their hands to do chores.

Like them, who do rough work in the palace all the year round, come and go in these remote places, it is naturally impossible to see Xia Xiaoxiao, let alone know her, but she can only see that the clothes on her body are brighter, thinking that she is a lady in a certain palace, and the people who come and go salute her.

Xia Xiaoxiao looked at the road ahead, either it was a working palace, or a cold palace that had not been patronized for a long time.

As soon as he turned around, he raised his eyes and saw Xia Yingxi walking out of the side hall in front of him.

Xia Yingxi wore a goose yellow woven colorful flowers and butterfly brocade dress, pinned a delicate Ruyi pendant around her waist, and the combed double bun looked a lot more energetic, and there was more beautiful and gorgeous between her eyebrows.

The green warbler followed behind her, reminding her that she had just raised her eyes to see Xia Xiaoxiao.

She walked out and was a little surprised to see Xia Xiaoxiao, "Why did my sister come here?" ”

Xia Xiaoxiao looked into the side hall she had just walked out of, a courtyard, a room, some red paint had fallen off on the palace walls around her, and there was no one inside, as if no one had lived in it for a long time, she said lightly, "This palace is also rare to see you walk out of Chenxiao Palace." ”

Xia Yingxi lowered her eyes and smiled, "Since my sister is here, why don't you go in and sit down." ”

As he spoke, he took Xia Xiaoxiao's hand and walked towards the hall.

It is an empty hall, most of the daily necessities in it have been removed, but there are still some tea, Xia Yingxi was busy, took out the tea leaves placed under the cabinet and brewed it for her, "Since the emperor was sick, His Royal Highness rarely returned to Chenxiao Palace, and he didn't see it for a long time, but he also missed it a little." ”

"The affairs of the DPRK and China are busy, and those of us who are concubines can only be considerate at this time."

Xia Xiaoxiao's hand stroked the table, although it was an empty hall that was uninhabited, it was very clean, and there was no dust at all, so Xia Xiaoxiao sat down with confidence.

"Xi'er understands that this is just this place, and she will always feel bored in Chenxiao Palace all day long, so this is just the right place to clean up." Xia Yingxi poured a cup of tea for Xia Xiaoxiao, and there was a small cut on the cup, she was a little embarrassed and said, "That's all for the things here, my sister will leave it." ”

"You still have this leisure." Xia Xiaoxiao smiled, turned the broken mouth of the teacup to the opposite side, and drank the tea on the intact side of the cup, which was a little astringent, and it should have been put for a long time.

Xia Yingxi has always been more diligent than her sister since she was a child, gentle and sensible, and virtuous, she saw Xia Yingxi raise her head and look at this small room, and heard her say with some emotion, "After all, this is the place where His Highness grew up, it is cleaner, and Xi'er looks more comfortable." ”

When Xia Xiaoxiao heard this, a mouthful of tea that had just been poured into his mouth almost squirted out, and he quickly wiped the corner of his mouth and said with a shocked expression, "Beigong Yu used to live here?" ”

She could sweep the size of this side hall at a glance, but there was a room with a palm-sized floor, and there was a table, two stools, and on the right was a stone bed with stones, and then there was a small cabinet, and the rest was nothing, not even a window that was ventilated!

This kind of place, how could Beigong Yu ever live here!

Xia Yingxi saw the real shock in Xia Xiaoxiao's eyes, but she was a little surprised, "Sister doesn't know? ”

Xia Xiaoxiao shook her head in a daze, although she had heard that Beigong Yu had been living in a side hall in the palace before becoming the prince, but she never thought that it would be such a simple side hall, this is not just a partial, this is clearly a cold palace! It's almost to the Nanming country!

Xia Yingxi sat down beside her, drank the tea with a little bitterness, her eyes showed a little distress, and said softly, "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is the second prince, and my sister knows who the eldest prince is?" ”

Xia Xiaoxiao didn't want to reply to her, "Leaving the king?" ”

Xia Yingxi shook her head, "It is said that before the emperor ascended the throne, there was actually a child, and then somehow, he died, and the position of the prince should have been reserved for the dead child." ”

Xia Xiaoxiao couldn't help frowning when she heard the dead child she mentioned, what Xia Yingxi said should be Beigong Chengyan's first child, Duan Jinyun, the unborn child who died in her womb.

But it was not as Xia Yingxi said, but before he was born, he died in the moat with Duan Jinyun.

Xia Xiaoxiao always thought that Beigong Yu was the second oldest among the many princes in the palace, and Beigong Pheasant Li was the royal brother of Beigong Yu, so Beigong Pheasant Li should be the eldest prince.

"His Royal Highness's mother Concubine Chen Concubine Niangniang was once a concubine in the general's mansion, and when the emperor ascended the throne, he was just in time for the arrival of the king and His Royal Highness, but because Concubine Chen Niangniang committed an accident soon after entering the palace, she was ordered to be executed by the emperor, which made the king and His Royal Highness lose their mother, and the king was born before His Royal Highness, so he became the first heir of the emperor, and since then he has taken the king with him, and His Royal Highness the prince ......"

Xia Yingxi gradually said, her eyes were flushed unconsciously, Xia Xiaoxiao looked at a soft-hearted, patted her back, and comforted Xia Yingxi softly.

Xia Xiaoxiao stared at Xia Yingxi's red eyes like a rabbit at this time, paused, and asked, "These things were told to you by the prince?" ”

Xia Yingxi nodded, with a soft nasal voice in her voice, and said softly, "Once His Royal Highness was in a bad mood and drunk, he also said a lot of heartfelt things, His Royal Highness lost his mother since he was a child, and was placed in this side hall because he was not favored by the emperor, Xi'er doesn't know how His Royal Highness has come over for so many years." ”

Xia Yingxi has always liked Beigong Yu like this, thinking about Beigong Yu everywhere, and even the palace where he lived came to clean it in person, at this time, when he thought of the hardships that Beigong Yu might have suffered before becoming the prince, his heart suddenly didn't feel good, and he couldn't help but show some emotions in front of Xia Xiaoxiao.

Xia Xiaoxiao coaxed him while looking out of the hall.

There were handmaidens who were doing chores back and forth at the entrance of the hall, Xia Xiaoxiao couldn't help but think, in such a remote place that was almost forgotten, would anyone take Beigong Yu as the master?

That night, Xia Xiaoxiao lost her sleepiness.

Xia Xiaoxiao was still thinking about finding Beigong Yu during the day, and lying on the bed at night, his mind was full of the words that Xia Yingxi had said.

Xia Yingxi later said about Concubine Chen, she heard it when she first entered the palace, Beigong Yu lost his mother when he was young, and now when she thinks about it, Xia Xiaoxiao suddenly understands why the emperor has such a very different attitude towards the twin brothers Beigong Pheasant Li and Beigong Yu.

Beigong Chengyan's first child was the one in Duan Jinyun's womb, but unfortunately he died early, and Beigong Chengyan pinned all his thoughts about that child on Beigong Pheasant, who was his first heir in the eyes of outsiders, and Beigong Yu was born less than half a pillar of incense later than Beigong Pheasant, and in the eyes of Beigong Chengyan, he was no different from other princes, and even incomparable, and was arranged in such a side hall at will.

Xia Xiaoxiao always thought that Beigong Yu was the crown prince, although he was not as favored by the emperor as Beigong Pheasant, but he also landed with a golden spoon in his mouth, but when she saw the appearance of the side hall today, she knew that Beigong Yu may have suffered a lot.

Just thinking about it, the door of the room opened, and Xia Xiaozheng couldn't sleep, so he turned over and said, "Qingyue, you go and change the incense to the palace again, this incense is not hypnotic today." ”

Qingyue didn't respond for a long time, the wind blowing in was still again, and there was a steady footstep behind him.

Xia Xiaoxiao turned around, and Beigong Yu, who hadn't seen her for a few days because of the busy affairs of the court, was standing in front of her bed.

"Why are you here! Aren't you supposed to be in the study? ”

Xia Xiaoxiao was taken aback, she got up from the bed, put on her middle coat, pulled the quilt and covered it in front of her, this damn Qingyue was lazy again, and Beigong Yu didn't tell her when she came!

Beigong Yu's Ling eyebrows frowned slightly, revealing a thick look of exhaustion, "This palace has just come back from Lingyun Palace, and it is a little tired. ”

As he spoke, he went to Xia Xiaoxiao's bed, Xia Xiaoxiao hurriedly saw that he was taking off his clothes one by one, and hurriedly leaned on the side of the bed to stop him from coming to bed, "Why do you want to come to me when you are tired?" ”

"Sleep."

Beigong Yu unceremoniously pulled the quilt on her body, and Xia Xiaoxiao rolled into the bed.

Beigong Yu looked really tired, Xia Xiaoxiao tossed up and saw that he was already lying on her bed, Beigong Yu took her hand gently, Xia Xiaoxiao fell into his arms, and listened to him say lightly, "Don't sleep yet, what are you doing in a daze?" ”

Xia Xiaoxiao struggled twice, but Beigong Yu looked tired, but his strength was still very strong, Xia Xiaoxiao made a fuss for a long time, but he had no strength, panting and annoyed, "What are you doing here when you sleep?" Isn't it time to go to your cold temple! Lingering there is also a success! ”

"Hongu is willing." Beigong Yu was so impatient that Xia Xiaoxiao grinded her back, she kept moving in his arms, and unconsciously reacted, and immediately pressed her squirming body hard and said fiercely, "Don't move!" ”

Xia Xiaoxiao was stunned by his sudden roar, and stared at him with a wrinkled face, yes, his own Dusk Pavilion is his family, and he can sleep wherever he wants! Everything is as good as he pleases!

Seeing that Xia Xiaoxiao really didn't move again, he covered her with the quilt, slowly closed his eyes, and the tip of his nose lingered with a fresh fragrance in Xia Xiaoxiao's hair, and sleepiness gradually hit.

Beigong Yu has been busy day and night these days, he just went to Lingyun Hall again, the queen is still there, but his father still has no signs of waking up, even Lu Wuxian can't find out the reason, if it drags on like this, there will be great changes in the palace sooner or later, at this time he didn't have the heart to fight with Xia Xiaoxiao, and he finally found a little time to sleep in the past few days, he just suddenly wanted to come here to see her.

Beigong Yu is much taller than Xia Xiaoxiao, even if they are lying together on the bed, Xia Xiaoxiao still has to tilt his head a little to look at him.

Xia Xiaoxiao stared at Beigong Yu's silent sleeping face in front of her, his long eyebrows were still slightly frowned, and he unconsciously remembered the place in the side hall, on such a stone bed, hot in summer and cool in winter, it should not be the place where a daughter like Beigong Yu should live.

"Today, I met Haunting in the side hall next to the Huanyi Fang."

She sniffed, trying to take away his hand on her waist while he was asleep.

"What are you going to do there?"

Beigong Yu didn't open his eyes, he noticed Xia Xiaoxiao's movements, and the strength in his hand increased a few points.

Xia Xiaoxiao finally gave up the struggle and sighed softly, "I wanted to leave the palace, but I was afraid that you wouldn't agree, and it would be too stuffy in the house. ”

Beigong Yu's head moved, his chin lightly pressed against her forehead, the hot breath he breathed tickled her head, and she heard Beigong Yu say to her with tiredness in his voice, "When my father wakes up, this palace will take you out of the palace." ”

Xia Xiaoxiao didn't take it to heart, and asked him softly, "Beigong Yu, have you always had a grudge against your father?" ”

Beigong Yu let go of her, opened his eyes and looked down at her, there was no wave in his eyes, just said lightly, "You still suspect that it's me?" ”

Xia Xiaoxiao looked at Beigong Yu's eyes that were like black stars that night, and didn't speak, she wasn't suspicious of him, but suddenly remembered her father, Xia Fu.

She used to have a father's love and mother's love, and she also had a lot of care and care, but since she was six years old, Xia Yingxi's mother and son entered the house, and her mother died, she became a thorn in Xia Fu's eyes, like a thorn in the flesh, three days and a penalty, five days and a dozen, she was driven out of Xia Fu many times, but at that time she was so young that she knew that she didn't even have a way to live after leaving Xia Fu. But even though she has been staying in Xia Mansion, since she was sensible, she only regarded that place as a place where she could eat and live together, and she had a grudge against Xia Fu for her like this.

And what about Beigong Yu?

Beigong Yu knew what Xia Xiaoxiao was thinking, his father made him lose his mother at a young age, and placed him in a side hall that no one cared about since he was a child, he suffered in those years, and his life was hanging by a thread, but he Beigong Yu finally survived, there was no family affection in this palace, where did the resentment and hatred come from?

All that is needed is the supreme right!

Beigong Yu's hand slid across Xia Xiaoxiao's forehead, his eyes gradually became sharp, his fingertips buckled on Xia Xiaoxiao's chin, he suddenly sighed twice, looking at Xia Xiaoxiao's gaze with some sympathy, "You wanted to kill your father and kill the king when this palace was in the beginning,"

Xia Xiaoxiao looked at the dangerous light that suddenly emanated from Beigong Yu's eyes, and became a little scared.

"Isn't it?" She wrinkled her eyebrows and looked at him directly, she wanted to hide, but Beigong Yu's hand clasped her, and a layer of cocoons was formed on his fingertips because he had been holding a sword for many years, caressing Xia Xiaoxiao's slightly white red lips, Xia Xiaoxiao heard him suddenly smile and said, "Xiao Xia'er, their target has not been that person from beginning to end." ”

"Hmm......"

After Beigong Yu finished speaking, a kiss fell, and Xia Xiaoxiao was so frightened that she didn't have time to react!

Like a dragonfly dotting water, Beigong Yu quickly let go of her, and the fierce expression in his eyebrows and eyes suddenly disappeared, and turned to be so lazy and evil, warning, "If this mouth can't be quiet, the palace will keep blocking it." ”

"You!"

Xia Xiaoxiao was just about to scold, Beigong Yu was about to lean over again, Xia Xiaoxiao hurriedly covered his mouth and glared at him, he didn't dare to speak anymore, and cursed fiercely in his heart: Beigong Yu has suffered a thousand knives!

Beigong Yu looked at her panicked face, and suddenly laughed lowly.

Is this embarrassment so funny?

Xia Xiaoxiao gave him a fierce look, simply turned his back, and wrapped most of the quilt around her body, Beigong Yu occupied half of her bed, she just deliberately didn't leave the quilt for him!

Xia Xiaoxiao snorted several times in the quilt and wiped it his mouth, Beigong Yu is really a good hand! It's so easy to take advantage of her!

Gradually, the sound of steady and even breathing came from behind him.

She secretly turned her head to look at him, Beigong Yu's eyes closed at some point, as if he was really asleep, but the tightly wrinkled eyebrows, from the time he came in until he fell asleep, he never let go for a moment.

Beigong Yu's sleeping face is still handsome, with long eyebrows and slightly pursed thin lips, even if he is asleep, his face still reveals a fierce rejection.

It's been three years, and in the past three years, she has fantasized countless times about the scene when Beigong Yu was lying next to her like now, and she was like Xia Yingxi at that time, how much she liked him.

However, now, when Beigong Yuzhen was really lying beside her, she realized that she was still too far away from this man.

Beigong Yu said casually that when the emperor woke up, he would take her out of the palace, but what she wanted was to leave.

Now, if she can't leave the palace, after Beigong Yu uses her, can she really go on like this for the rest of her life?

If she goes to Luozhi now, is Luozhi still willing to help herself?

Xia Xiaoxiao couldn't help but be a little irritable, and it was late at night, and she fell asleep unconsciously.

On the second day, Beigong Yu still had to go to the morning court, and the person disappeared before Xia Xiaoxiao woke up.

As the days passed, as long as the emperor did not wake up for a day, the heavier the burden on Beigong Yu's body, and the greater the hidden pressure from all sides.

In the next few days, Beigong Yu came to Xia Xiaoxiao's twilight pavilion to sleep almost every day, sometimes three or two days to come back and forth, and if he didn't come at night, he was in the imperial study all night to criticize and fold, she asked Beigong Yu, obviously he had such a good Han Palace, why didn't he live, he wanted to come to her this twilight pavilion to squeeze, and Beigong Yu replied to her shamelessly, "It's good for the palace to find that you are squeezed and sleeping here." ”

Xia Xiaoxiao was so angry that she gritted her teeth, Beigong Yu slept comfortably here with her, but Xia Xiaoxiao didn't sleep peacefully at all! Xia Xiaoxiao has always been used to sleeping alone, and she can endure it once or twice in a while, as long as Beigong Yu doesn't do anything to her, according to the trend of Beigong Yu coming from both ends in the past three days, Xia Xiaoxiao's eyes have two more circles of black halo, obviously it is her bed alone, and now she has half of it for Beigong Yu!

Xia Xiaoben followed the clues all the way to check the things, but because he hadn't slept well in the past two days, he put them aside for the time being.

I wanted to go to Xia Shulan to ask a few more times, but Qingyue came with news that since the day the emperor was bedridden, Xia Shulan also fell ill in the middle of the forgetful dust, Xia Xiaoxiao went to visit once, and those words to ask finally couldn't bear to ask. As for why Beigong Chengyan wanted to destroy the Duan family in the first place, the credibility of this matter is a little bit, she still needs to go to the palace to see it another day, and in the past few days, she really has lost that energy.

But time, after all, didn't let her step out of this palace gate for another half step.

—————— Dividing Line——————

Since the emperor was sick, Lingyun Hall has become a place with many people, and the imperial doctors still keep changing dressings and diagnosing pulses all day and night, for fear that something will happen to the emperor.

During this time, Queen Yunhui has been guarding the Lingyun Palace, never leaving.

Although the queen has been secretly forming her own forces, but to the emperor, in Xia Xiaoxiao's eyes, I am afraid that it is not weaker than her aunt's feelings for the emperor.

In the ten or so days that the emperor was sick, although many of the emperor's concubines went to visit and take care of the emperor, it was only for one or two days, and in the ten days, only the old fox was really by the emperor's side.

Xia Xiaoxiao remembered that the old fox once asked her what was the reason why she could support a woman to spend her life and choose to stay in this palace that did not see the light of day, Xia Xiaoxiao replied to her at the time, some people are for glory and wealth, and some people are probably for the person who can't let go of his heart.

And Yun Ji, no matter how ambitious she is, no matter what she does, it should just be to have the emperor's heart.

But the emperor, the person in his heart, whether it is Xia Shulan now or Duan Jinyun back then, can't tolerate Yun Hui's figure.

Xia Xiaoxiao thought, in a few days, if the emperor wakes up and looks at the old fox who has been by his side all these days, maybe he will no longer hate the old fox as much as before.