"I heard that the emperor handed over the matter of the spring to the fourth prince," Mama explained, "but after returning from the autumn hunt, the emperor seems to have changed his mind..."

The queen frowned, "What has the fourth child been doing lately?" ”

"Years ago, the fourth prince has been running for the affairs of the second prince and the third prince. At the end of the year, the emperor was still unwilling to release the second and third princes, and the old slave did not hear the movements of the fourth prince. ”

"What about the emperor?" The queen's heart tightened, "Can you summon him frequently?" ”

"That's not true, the fourth prince has rarely even entered the palace recently."

"Having said that, the palace hasn't seen the fourth princess for some days," the queen thought for a while, "On the first day of the new year, can she come to the palace to say goodbye?" ”

"Yes, the fourth princess has been standing behind the crown princess."

"Tsk... It turned out that she was standing behind that idiot, no wonder Hongu didn't notice her. "When it comes to the crown princess, the queen is angry, that idiot can't even keep the child in her belly.

Because she is still a crown princess, this is the third miscarriage that has been made.

The queen sighed, always feeling that everything was not going well now. "Send more people to keep an eye on Long Zeyan, this palace is always a little uneasy about him."

"Don't worry, the old slave will arrange it."

"Well, step aside." The queen mother rubbed her head, maybe because of her age, but now that she thinks about something, her head hurts tightly.

"Niangniang, the imperial dining room brought you red bean glutinous balls, do you want to eat them while they are hot?"

Just as the queen was about to take a nap, the palace maid entered the house with a food box.

When the queen heard the words red bean glutinous ball, the queen's face sank, and the palace maid trembled with fright. "Mother?" The people in the imperial dining room said that this red bean glutinous dough was ordered by the queen's mother, but the mother's face changed obviously when she heard the words red bean glutinous dough, could it be that they made a mistake?

The palace maid was a little flustered, and at this time she remembered in a trance that in the two years she had served in Kunning Palace, the queen mother seemed to have never eaten red bean-flavored pastries...

"You put it down, and I'll eat it later." The queen stabilized her mind and asked the palace maid to put down the food box and retreat.

When she was left in the hall, the queen opened the food box and used chopsticks to poke the glutinous dough from the middle one by one. In the glutinous ball at the bottom, the queen found a note: Chongming Palace.

"Tsk," the queen mother threw the note into the candle flame and burned it all with displeasure.

Chongming Hall is located in the middle of the former dynasty and the harem, during the reign of the first emperor, if the relatives of those ministers enter the palace, they can return to the palace together with the ministers in the Chongming Palace. Later, after the emperor ascended the throne, assassins were mixed in the Chongming Palace, so the emperor abandoned the Chongming Palace.

The queen took her personal old lady and quietly entered the gate of Chongming Palace. The paint on the wall of the Chongming Hall was already mottled, and the thick dust was a little choking, and the queen mother stood by the door and did not go inside.

"Shuyuan, you're here..."Prime Minister Xue's voice came out from behind the doorpost, the queen looked fixedly, Prime Minister Xue was dressed in white, standing straight in the hall.

"Please call the queen of this palace!" The queen mother's face was calm, and her phoenix eyes were brighter than usual when she looked at Prime Minister Xue Cheng.

"Shuyuan, do you and I have to be so rusty?" Prime Minister Xue didn't seem to listen to the queen's words, and stretched out his hand to the queen's mother affectionately, "Come to me?" ”

The queen mother looked at Prime Minister Xue Cheng's appearance, and her eyes were a little moist. However, in the contest between desire and reason, reason prevailed, and the queen mother turned her back, "Prime Minister Xue, the relationship between us was broken as early as when we entered the palace. ”

"Shuyuan, do you have to be thousands of miles away from me?" Prime Minister Xue Cheng's eyes showed some sourness.

"That's enough, put away your hypocrisy." The queen mother glanced at Prime Minister Xue Cheng, "Say, what do you want to use me for?" ”

"Shuyuan, how can you think of me like that?" Prime Minister Xue sighed, "I really love you, even after so many years, you are still the indelible white moonlight in my heart." ”

"Don't talk to me about the past!" The queen mother suddenly became angry, "What did you tell me in the first place? You said that you have already made a plan, as long as I enter the palace as a woman, the emperor will definitely marry me to you. As a result, I became a princess, and I had to face endless intrigues every day, and you married an unknown woman and went back to be alone for the rest of your life!"

"Shuyuan, the emperor suddenly changed his mind, this is also something that can't be helped." Prime Minister Xue sighed, "I don't love Yingrou's biological mother at all, and I have no interest in women other than you, so I haven't taken a concubine for so many years... I really only love you in my life, Shuyuan, you have to believe me..."

Prime Minister Xue slowly approached the queen mother, and hugged the queen mother into his arms from behind, "Providence has made people make us make mistakes for so many years. Shuyuan, you don't know how unwilling I have been over the years..."

"Unwilling?" The queen mother who was hugged was very stiff, she closed her eyes, "Why did you go earlier?" It's too late now..."

"It's not too late, it's not too late." Prime Minister Xue Cheng whispered in the queen's ear, "Now the emperor's body is not good, the second prince and the third prince are imprisoned, the fourth prince is weak, Shuyuan, as long as we join forces to send the prince to the throne, you will return to the countryside with me and be a fairy couple, okay?" ”

"Are you serious?" The queen asked in an unclear tone, "Are you willing to let go of your identity under one person and above ten thousand people?" Aren't you now the sole ruler of the DPRK and China? Your power, even the emperor has to be afraid of you for three points! ”

"Shuyuan, the reason why I will frantically seize power in the DPRK is not because I want to protect you." Prime Minister Xue said affectionately, "You know, right? For so many years, I have never stumbled on you and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince..."

The queen pursed her lips and did not make a sound.

"If you care about your identity and the future of the Pei family, you don't have to worry about it, after His Royal Highness the Crown Prince ascends the throne, you will be the queen mother, even if you retire, this identity cannot be changed. Or do you already have a husband and wife affection for the emperor? Don't want to follow me? Prime Minister Xue Cheng increased his strength to hug the queen's mother, "Please, have mercy on me?" I am over half a hundred years old, and I don't have many days to live, and I hope that for the rest of my life, I will see your face every day when I open my eyes..."

The queen mother still didn't say anything, she lowered her head a little lonely.

"Shuyuan, I know I made up my mind too late and made you wait too long." Prime Minister Xue continued, "But if you appear here today, it means that you still have me in your heart, right?" ”