Kunning Palace was silent, only a few palace people lowered their heads and secretly choked.

Xu Qinghuan walked into the hall, and the female official immediately greeted her: "Niangniang is waiting for you." ”

Xu Qinghuan nodded and followed the female officer into the inner room.

Under the dim candlelight, Queen Yu was lying in the bed, her eyebrows stretched and she was already asleep, and the female official was about to step forward to call, Xu Qinghuan shook her head: "I'll wait next to me for a while!" ”

She had experienced such pain in her previous life, and she knew how difficult it was to rest peacefully for a while.

The female officer nodded and slowly withdrew.

Looking at the thin and haggard Queen Yu, Xu Qing was happy and sad from the heart, and couldn't help shedding tears, Queen Yu has been proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting since she was a child, what a talented woman she is, but in the end she ended up with such a result.

In the past few days, she entered the palace to tell Queen Yu what the slave did, and she could always see a flash of brilliance from the queen's eyes, and finally Queen Yu sighed: "Hearing you say this, I really want to go to the slave to have a look." ”

Xu Qinghuan was thinking about this when a weak voice sounded.

"You're here."

Queen Yu didn't know when she had opened her eyes and was looking at Xu Qinghuan in front of the bed.

Xu Qinghuan immediately got up and saluted.

Queen Yu said: "Don't be restrained, I'm ...... I asked you to come here just to talk to you. ”

Xu Qinghuan got up and lifted the brocade and sat a little away from the queen, which was usually unruly, but now he can't take care of it.

Queen Yu was very happy to see Xu Qinghuan, and her spirit seemed to be better: "You can't sleep at night?" ”

Xu Qinghuan nodded: "It's still like this, but it's much better to walk around the garden more during the day." ”

Queen Yu couldn't help but smile: "Everyone else has to recuperate well to be good, but you are different, it can be seen that the child in the belly is very energetic." ”

If Xu Qinghuan usually laughed along, but now looking at Queen Yu like this, she really didn't have this mood.

"It's a pity," Empress Yu sighed, "We only met so late, and there aren't many opportunities to meet, it would be nice to have it earlier, I always feel that there are still many things to say." ”

Xu Qinghuan's eyes were hot again, but he didn't want to choke up in front of the queen: "You are in a hurry to call me over, do you have something important to ask me?" ”

Empress Yu nodded: "Everyone in the palace said that Zhang Yuchi also made a great contribution this time, personally took people to Xuanfu to fight against the Tatars, and also asked people to help in the difficult river, I want to ask you if these things are true?" ”

Xu Qinghuan did not hesitate: "No." ”

Empress Yu couldn't help laughing when she expected it: "I have long known that the Zhang family is by no means loyal and righteous, but I didn't expect them to be unbearable to such a point. ”

After saying this, Empress Yu's voice became even lower: "The emperor tolerated the Zhang family like this, but he was also afraid that you would take a slave and want to use the Zhang family to contain you, I am afraid that Zhang Jingshu will also be released from the cold palace soon, I ...... Thinking that the Zhang family would inevitably do evil again in the future, he was worried. ”

Empress Yu coughed when she said this.

Xu Qinghuan immediately stepped forward.

Queen Yu covered her mouth and nose: "You dodge, I don't want to give you sickness." ”

Xu Qinghuan said: "You are poisoned, and you are out of the way." ”

Queen Yu still refused to turn her face away until the female official stepped forward to serve.

After a long time, Empress Yu gradually quieted down.

Queen Yu's eyes were a little distracted, and her voice was softer than Fang Cai: "Although I never thought of entering the palace and getting into such a cage, but when the emperor took a fancy to me and wanted to carry me into the palace, I was not completely unwilling, because I think he is full of ambition, dares to fight against the Queen Mother, and likes to read, can read and paint, I ...... I feel that this palace may not be as terrible as I imagined.

It backfired, he didn't treat me with true feelings, but he just wanted to use me to fight against the Queen Mother.

I have long been disheartened with him, but I have dreamed of him a few times in a trance in the past few days, and I thought that I had never done anything as a queen, and I was so harmed by the Zhang family, so I wanted to do one last thing. ”

Queen Yu accentuated her tone: "While I am still the head of the harem, take someone to get rid of Zhang Jingshu." ”

After saying this, Queen Yu looked at Xu Qinghuan.

Looking at each other, Queen Yu's eyes were calm, and Xu Qinghuan had already understood: "So Niangniang, you sent your courtiers to come here to ask the Zhang family about their actions in northern Xinjiang, so as to make up your mind." ”

Empress Yu smiled: "In the end, you understand me." ”

"But you've already thought about it," Xu Qinghuan said, "I don't want to do this." ”

Queen Yu closed her eyes: "Knowing that Zhang Jingshu will be released, walking in the palace in the future, will definitely give the Queen Mother a lot of help, but what's the use of getting rid of her, Zhang Jingshu is dead, and someone else in the Zhang family will be sent to the palace, in the final analysis, the problem is not here, I am very sick, and people are confused."

That's it, don't do anything more, and when it's time to let go, you should go quietly. ”

Xu Qinghuan said: "There is no one in this palace who can see it more clearly than Niangniang. ”

"I'd rather be confused," Empress Yu said and smiled, "but I can't be confused now, I have something to entrust to you." ”

Xu Qinghuan said: "Niangniang just said, what the courtiers can do must do their best." ”

Empress Yu nodded: "My father has no other achievements, he knows all kinds of etiquette, my brother is the same, he is dedicated to learning, he is not familiar with human feelings, they stay in Beijing for fear that others will take advantage of it, after I die, my father will ask to tell the old man to return to the field, my brother also has to take care of the elders in the family, I let them go to Shanxi first, and then go to the southeast." ”

Empress Yu said and stretched out her hand to pull Xu Qinghuan: "Let them settle down in the southeast," her fingers tightened slightly when she said this, "If you need my father and brother to preside over etiquette in the future, they will do their best to help." ”

Xu Qinghuan looked at Empress Yu in a little surprise, the etiquette of inviting a bachelor like Yu Guozhang to preside over is not trivial, such as asking Song Chengxuan to restore the identity of King Wei, but I didn't expect Empress Yu to have guessed this, Empress Yu had never mentioned it to her before.

Empress Yu nodded.

Xu Qinghuan was about to get up and salute, but Queen Yu grabbed her: "After arranging these things, my wish has been fulfilled, and I don't have to worry anymore." ”

Queen Yu said some words to Xu Qinghuan again, but she was already in good spirits when she got to the back, so Xu Qinghuan was let out of the palace.

Xu Qinghuan walked to the door and reluctantly turned her head to look at Empress Yu again, Empress Yu shook her hand gently, as if she was in better spirits than Fang Cai.

All the way out of the palace gate, Song Chengxuan was already waiting there.

"How's the mother?" Song Chengxuan asked in a low voice.

Xu Qinghuan shook his head: "I'm afraid there are only a few days, we might as well stay in Beijing for a few more days." "If the mother is in good spirits, maybe she will be summoned again.

Song Chengxuan said: "I will ask the military advisor to help take care of Changzhou." ”

Back in the mansion, Xu Qinghuan told Song Chengxuan what the queen said: "The queen is a smart woman. "If the emperor is willing to believe in the empress, the Great Zhou will not be what it is now.

While the two were talking, the housekeeper's mother came to say: "Uncle, grandmother, someone in the palace is here, and the queen is dead." ”