Yun doesn't often come to Hot Spring Zhuangzi, the room prepared for her here is not big, and the decoration is very simple, and her spacious and bright bedroom in Zhongwang's Mansion is one heaven and one underground.

But because of its narrow space and slightly stuffy atmosphere because of the geothermal heat, it made this conversation more solemn and confidential.

"Ying'er, how do you think of the old lady in the few months you have lived in the palace?" Yun asked.

Shui Ying thought that the Yun family was going to teach her a lesson, but she didn't expect the Yun family to ask such a question, she thought about it and said, "I rarely see the old lady, she always recites scriptures in the Buddhist hall in the back, and almost never comes out." But she looked very young, not at all like a sixty-year-old. ”

"It's just that there's something wrong with the looks. You, child, have been in the palace for a few months, and you haven't heard any rumors? Yun smiled bitterly.

Shui Ying shook her head, and the Yun family said helplessly to Shui Ying: "Do you know that the first emperor had more than a dozen concubines, why except for the old concubine, everyone else was sent to the nunnery outside the palace, and only the old concubine could stay in the palace?" ”

"Isn't it because she was born in the Zhongwang Mansion?"

"Silly boy, our ancestors can get the title of Zhongwangfu, which is inseparable from the concubine. A hundred years ago, there were only three kings in my Great Zhou Dynasty: King Yan, King Ning, and King Jing. When the emperor was young, the nine princes of the clan made a rebellion, and the first emperor who was originally just a down-and-out side branch showed his edge, and finally pacified the country and inherited the throne. It's just that there is one thing you don't know, when the old lady Shui was only fourteen years old, she saw the extraordinaryness of the first emperor, and married the first emperor despite the opposition of her family. Later, in order for the former emperor to win the trust of the Jing princely family, he was willing to give up the position of his wife and let the first emperor marry the daughter of the Jing princely family. ”

"The current Queen Mother is surnamed Hou." Shui Ying looked at the Yun family in surprise: "So, if it weren't for the old concubine's concession, she would have been the queen mother?" ”

"Yes. In order to compensate our Shui family, the emperor gave us the title of Zhongwangfu, all of which was actually exchanged by the old concubine. And this word of loyalty is also telling us that the Shui family must be loyal to the king, and it is only after death. Yun smiled distressedly.

She paused and continued: "The Hou family is powerful, and the first emperor single-handedly handled the marriage of the saint today in order to balance, and let him marry a girl from a noble family. Unexpectedly, the queen mother was not satisfied, and chose a beautiful girl in the Hou family to be the holy concubine, that is, the biological mother of the current second prince, Concubine Hou. ”

Shui Ying opened her eyes wide and looked at the Yun family who was talking, feeling that as the topic deepened, she seemed to have come into contact with something incredible.

"These are all on the surface, and they can be seen by others. It's just that in the past few years, the court has been turbulent, and some people advocate that the second prince born to the concubine is orthodox and ask for the crown prince, I don't know if you have heard of this. ”

"Nope." Shui Ying shook his head like a rattle: "Although the prince is not in good health, he was born to the queen after all, and his personal morality is also very good, why should he be replaced." ”

"The body and mind are not enough, and the snake swallows the elephant! It's not that the prince did something wrong, it's that others want more. Today, the Queen Mother has never given birth to children, and there is no Hou family blood in the body of the saint and the prince. ”

"Mother, are you saying that all this was planned by the Hou family of King Jing's Mansion?" Shui Ying stared at the Yun clan in surprise.

The candlelight flickered, and the shining Yun family's face was heavily shadowed, and she nodded slowly: "If it was just someone in the court advocating it, but they actually wanted to attract foreign aid to support the second prince." The last time your father and brothers were in distress in the Northland, they couldn't get out of it. ”

"What?" Shui Ying actually jumped up, she couldn't believe it: "Could it be that the person who collaborated with the enemy and treasoned and reported to the barbarian king of the northern land is actually the Marquis of the Jingwang Mansion?" ”

"Nope. The Hou family is just the mastermind behind the scenes, and there is no way to prove that it was done by the Hou family based on the evidence we have obtained. The one who reported to the barbarian king was just a pawn under the Hou family. These few days are the time for the saint to close the net and find out the pawn, our Zhongwang Mansion has always been loyal only to the saint, and it has long become a thorn in the side of the Hou family. Not to mention your father and brother, even the two of us, it's not safe. ”

"Mother, the second prince went to our restaurant at noon today to eat. Thankfully, I didn't see him at the time. Shui Ying let out a sigh and said with luck.

"I'm glad you didn't see him! You, you, sometimes smart, sometimes confused! Knowing that you can't see the second prince, why don't you know when you leave, tell others where you went. If you don't come home tonight, do you know how worried I am with your father and brothers? ”

Shui Ying understood Yun's good intentions, she threw herself into Yun's arms, hugged her and said, "Mother, I was wrong. She rubbed it in Yun's arms and said, "You let me open a restaurant outside or something, it's also to protect me, right?" Otherwise, why is the business of other houses so good, but the restaurant business I opened is so bad, and I am surrounded by soldiers who have followed my father, they are highly skilled in martial arts, and it is easy to protect me. ”

Shui Yingyue said that the more smooth his thoughts became: "Also, mother, you let the second brother go to the hot spring Zhuangzi to live permanently, and let me open a restaurant in the outer city, and my brother and father are always at home." You have a quiet temperament, but you often go out to visit relatives and friends in the past six months, can it be said that our house is no longer safe? ”

"It's not that the house is unsafe, it's the entire inner city, if it doesn't happen this time, there will be big turmoil." Yun exhaled a big breath and looked at the dark night on the window paper outside: "Everything, it's up to tonight!" ”

Shui Ying bounced up: "But I still have friends in the inner city." Qingge and Ling Xiao don't know these at all, no, I have to report to them and tell them to stay away. ”

Yun Shi grabbed her: "Nonsense! They are not involved in this matter. The only thing to worry about in Beijing today is the Wei family and the Ning family. ”

"What?" Shui Ying was stunned.

At this moment, Yan Qingge and Yan Xiuyu were sitting in the main hall talking. Gu sat on the top, and chatted with a few maids in the light, including the colored beads that had just come.

Caizhu just came today, and with his skills and humble attitude, he won the love of the Gu family.

The Gu family is a noble girl from everyone, with a good family education, and she has never seen anything dirty. Then married into a simple scholarly family, after so many years, the heart has never grown at all, and the temperament is more simple and sincere than many girls.

Caizhu felt that such a master was many times better than Aunt Hai, and she couldn't help but be very grateful to Yan Qingge.

They were all sitting in the hall, waiting for Le Yi. Le Yi didn't know if he was stumped by some business today, and he hadn't arrived home yet.

The time had already passed when Yan Xiuyu went back, but he didn't leave, but chatted with Yan Qingge on the light or not. With the reason that he had to see the master before leaving, he was happy to stay and spend more time with Yan Qingge.

Yan Qingge didn't dare to raise his eyes to look at Yan Xiuyu today because of the inexplicable movement in his heart. In the two lives combined, it was the first time she had such a different feeling for a certain man, and this man was still a teenager she watched grow up, and she couldn't accept this in her heart.

The more this is the case, the better Yan Xiuyu smiles at her, and occasionally glimpses her, making her stunned for a while, and then spitting on herself even more.

Just when the deer in Yan Qingge's heart was colliding, a servant who went to deliver supper to Le Yi came back, he carried the food box he got back as it was, and said to Yan Qingge and Gu: "The road to the street over there in Hanlin Courtyard was blocked by officers and soldiers, and no one was allowed to pass, and all the roads I detoured were like this." ”

Yan Qingge was stunned, the location of the Hanlin Courtyard was very close to the palace, and the road leading to the Hanlin Courtyard was blocked, did it mean that something big happened to the palace?

Gu Shi was also panicked, but everything inside and outside the family, Le Yi usually took care of a lot, but now she didn't even know what to do.

Instead, Yan Xiuyu stood up and said, "What's the matter?" What kind of clothes are the people who are closing the road wearing, how many are there, do you see clearly? ”

"I saw it clearly, they were all wearing the uniforms of the forbidden army, and they were very fierce. There was a person who wanted to go there to find his family members, and after a few more words with those officers and soldiers, he was put on the neck with a knife. The man wiped his sweat and said.

Yan Qingge and Yan Xiuyu glanced at each other, and they both saw the same message in each other's eyes: something happened in the inner city.

At this time, Gu's hands and feet were already cold, and his face was pale and terrifying. Yan Qingge hurriedly shouted: "Hurry up and cook brown sugar ginger water for my aunt." She hurriedly carried Gu Shi to the bed in the house with the maids, and comforted her.

It's so easy to call the Gu family a little better, Yan Qingge thought that it was not early, so he had to tell Yan Xiuyu to go back quickly. She went to the hall and was about to talk to Yan Xiuyu about this, when a maid ran and jumped in and said, "Little Lord Yan, Miss Cousin, come out and avoid it." There was a fire in the east. ”

"On fire?" Yan Qingge and Yan Xiuyu asked in unison.

Today, there is a road closure and a fire in Beijing, is there really something big going to happen?

They hurried out, only to see that the eastern sky was no longer the pure black of night, but was dyed a strange orange-red.

The orange red is far away, but now it is winter, and the houses in Beijing are densely built, the weather is dry and dry, and it really burns up, and it can't be saved in time, not to mention that it can burn the street next to it clean, even if it is half of the city, it is very likely to burn a thousand miles of red land.

Yan Qingge looked at that direction, pushed Yan Xiuyu, and said anxiously: "You go home quickly, I see that the direction is not far from your house." If your brother and sister-in-law have already come out, don't go in and grab something, no matter what is burned, people will be fine. ”

Yan Xiuyu was already in a hurry to leave, but there were a lot of treasures that Yan Qingge gave him in his bedroom, and he had to take them out. He nodded violently and said, "I'll go back and take a look, it shouldn't burn here, I'll come back when something happens over there." ”

Yan Xiuyu's subordinates had already gone to lead the horse.

Yan Qingge heard that he was coming back, and said hurriedly: "What are you doing when you come back, running around in the middle of the night." ”

Yan Xiuyu didn't answer, he didn't wait for the horse to come to him, he flew up, grabbed the horse's belly, galloped away, and disappeared into the deep night.