The king died, and the whole country mourned. The streets and alleys of the Imperial City are covered with white cloth. Queen Xiao led many concubines and knelt in Yongle Palace to guard the spirit of King Zhou. A generation of emperors passed away like this.

The country can not be without a king for a day, a week after the burial of the king of Zhou, the Manchu Dynasty civil and military played a fold to invite Zhou Ziyu to ascend the throne. Yan Lingyue, who gave birth to a little princess for Zhou Ziyu, is naturally the queen.

Sitting in the main hall, looking at the many ministers kneeling at her feet, and listening to their kneeling sounds, Yan Lingyue was in a trance for a moment. She actually became the queen of Da Zhou! Who can imagine that a princess who experienced the destruction of the country and was reborn in someone else will one day really become the most noble woman in the world.

When the people mentioned Yan Lingyue, they all sighed that she was lucky. After all, Zhou Ziyu at that time was stupid and stupid, and he still had a wife. Everyone thought that after Yan Lingyue married Zhou Ziyu, there would be no good results. But as a result, in less than two years, she became the queen of the Great Zhou.

When Zhou Ziyu and Yan Lingyue were paraded around the city in the imperial coffin, many ladies who were unwilling to marry Zhou Ziyu in the past looked at the phoenix crown on Yan Lingyue and regretted it. At the same time, I am also looking forward to the upcoming draft. You must know that there is only one Yan Lingyue by the new emperor's side, even if Duan Nianyun is added, there are only two people, and the huge harem is still empty.

The Li family, who opposed Duan Nianyun marrying Zhou Ziyu at the beginning, is now very happy. I was glad again and again that she decisively won the holy decree of marriage for her daughter. With the will of the emperor, after Duan Nianyun enters the palace, she must be the imperial concubine.

At this moment, Second Master Duan and the Li family finally raised their eyebrows in front of those who had made fun of them.

Some people are happy, and some people are unhappy. In Wuyi Alley, a ragged man listened to the discussion of the other beggars beside him, and his hands were clenched into fists. If he could have been more ruthless and killed Zhou Ziyu earlier, then he would be sitting on the dragon chair now, Zhou Ziqin.

With Yan Lingyue becoming the queen, the Yan Mansion has also attracted much attention, and Yan Yiran, who has become the national ruler, has a more stable position in the court. Compared with the high profile of the second master Duan, the Yan Mansion is extremely low-key, and the old lady also specially summoned everyone and told everyone to remember the four words "honor and disgrace are not shocked"! Yan Mansion can walk out of a queen, that is the ancestral light. You can't rely on being the queen's mother's family to act openly outside.

The three aunts, mother and daughter, each of them are very happy. Fortunately, at that time, they chose Yan Lingyue. Even the old lady sighed, but she didn't expect that the youngest daughter, who was the least valued in the past, became a master instead.

Yan Lingyue, who is the happiest in everyone's minds, is not doing well at this moment. Ever since King Zhou's death, she has had nightmares. At night, when she closes her eyes, she will dream of King Zhou, and dream that King Zhou will come to her to ask for her life.

In fact, King Zhou did not die at her hands, but Yan Lingyue still couldn't get over the hurdle in her heart. All along, she has been thinking about revenge, she has always wanted to be able to kill King Zhou with her own hands and avenge her father and queen mother. Now that she has really taken revenge and become the queen of the Great Zhou as she wished, she began to be unable to sleep at night.

I thought she would be able to deal with her emotions, and I thought that after she took revenge, she would be able to stay by Zhou Ziyu's side with peace of mind. After all, King Zhou had slaughtered so many people from the Northern Yan royal family, and it was natural for her to kill King Zhou, and it could not hinder her determination to be with Zhou Ziyu. But at the end of the day, she realized that she had overestimated herself.

As soon as she saw Zhou Ziyu, she thought that she had killed his father. She didn't regret killing King Zhou, if everything could be done all over again, she believed that she would still make the same choice, she just felt guilty about Zhou Ziyu.

This guilt, as well as the fact that she had human life on her hands, made Yan Lingyue almost out of breath. In just one month, she has lost a lot of weight. Mama Li and the four maids looked at it in their eyes, and at the same time, they felt distressed, but also felt strange. How many women in this world want to be queens? Their young lady became the queen obediently, and she should be happy, but she is getting more and more haggard day by day.

Zhou Ziyu, who has just taken the throne for a short time, has too many things to do, and sometimes he simply sleeps in the imperial study directly after dealing with the twists and turns until late at night. The time spent with Yan Lingyue was greatly reduced compared to before. Even so, Empress Dowager Xiao still repeatedly hinted to Yan Lingyue openly and secretly that as the queen and the lord of the first palace, the most important thing is to urge the king to be evenly stained with rain and dew, to reproduce heirs for the royal family, and also mentioned the draft matter.

According to convention, after the new emperor ascends the throne, the first thing is a large-scale draft to fill the harem. Empress Dowager Xiao also mentioned this matter to Zhou Ziyu, but Zhou Ziyu would shirk it every time for various reasons. Empress Dowager Xiao really had no choice, so she hit Yan Lingyue with her idea.

Yan Lingyue was already preoccupied, and her attitude towards Empress Dowager Xiao was also a little perfunctory. In this way, the Empress Dowager Xiao was unhappy. turned around and recruited Xiuchuan, who had been in the cold for a long time, to his side, and asked Xiuchuan to go to the imperial study to bring food to Zhou Ziyu.

However, Zhou Ziyu has never looked at Xiuchuan at all. After half a month in a row, Queen Xiao couldn't sit still, found Zhou Ziyu, and asked him to either draft immediately, or spoil Xiuchuan, whom she chose for him.

Empress Dowager Xiao's status in Zhou Ziyu's heart is self-evident. Zhou Ziyu didn't want Empress Dowager Xiao to be disappointed, so when Xiuchuan brought him soup again, he sealed her as a permanent presence.

Although the grade is not high, he was not favored, and he became a small master directly without going through the draft, but he was a great emperor. The name Xiuchuan instantly spread throughout the palace and even outside the palace. The ministers, who were still worried about the current king's reluctance to draft the draft, were a little relieved when they saw this.

Before Zhou Ziyu ascended the throne, everyone could see how good the relationship between him and Yan Lingyue was. As a prince, you can be favored, no one will say anything, and maybe you will win a good reputation for dedication. But to be a king, the most important thing is dedication. The ministers were worried that Zhou Ziyu was unwilling to be drafted because of Yan Lingyue, and they were worried that Zhou Ziyu would favor Yan Lingyue. Now that I see him taking a concubine, I am somewhat relieved.

Empress Dowager Xiao was also very happy. Although Zhou Ziyu still did not favor Xiuchuan, being able to accept her into the harem is a great progress.

In Ming Hanxuan, Yan Lingyue, who was teasing Zhou Ling'an, listened to Qiushuang's report, and was a little distracted. I didn't expect that Xiuchuan to really come out.

Seeing that Yan Lingyue was not willing to give up, Mama Li hurriedly said, "I heard that the king did not favor her, which means that in the king's heart, the queen is the most important." ”

Seeing Mama Li anxiously comforting her, Yan Lingyue smiled. As early as a long time ago, she was mentally prepared, knowing that she could not be Zhou Ziyu's only woman, and she also knew that Zhou Ziyu would accept a concubine sooner or later.

Sad? Thinking that Zhou Ziyu might sleep next to other women, of course she would be sad and even heartbroken. But because she had known the result for a long time, she was able to accept it very calmly.

Yan Lingyue didn't take Xiuchuan to heart, but it was Wang Laoju who handed her a letter. The letter explained Xiuchuan's identity and said that Xiuchuan's mother was actually a cousin of Empress Dowager Xiao. In the letter, Mr. Wang also cheered up Yan Lingyue, and he couldn't feel that everything was fine just because he became the queen. said that the struggle between the women of the harem was more exciting than that in the court. If she is defenseless, if she doesn't grasp Zhou Ziyu's heart, not only her, but also Zhou Ling'an, the end will be very miserable.

Yan Lingyue understood what Old Monk Wang said. But she is unwilling to lose herself in order to compete for a man's favor. What's more, this man is still her favorite husband. Thinking that she had to rely on scheming to compete with others for Zhou Ziyu's favor, Yan Lingyue felt sad and felt sad for herself.

Her psychology has not yet changed from the Nine Emperor Princesses to the Queen, but others have already begun to act.

"Originally, I was still wondering how Empress Dowager Xiao could value a palace maid so much, and she felt that Xiuchuan was someone from Empress Dowager Xiao's mother's family," After reading Wang Laojushi's letter, Mama Li said to Yan Lingyue, "It seems that in the future, we can't underestimate that Xiuchuan." ”

Yan Lingyue didn't say anything, and after throwing the letter into the incense burner, she continued to coax Zhou Ling'an.

A month after Xiuchuan became a regular member, Empress Dowager Xiao saw that Zhou Ziyu still returned to Ming Hanxuan every day, and suddenly became a little anxious, after all, Zhou Ziyu did not have a little prince under his knees.

After beating Yan Lingyue, Empress Dowager Xiao recruited Li and Duan Nianyun into the palace the next day, saying that she could prepare to let Duan Nianyun enter the palace to accompany her.

Duan Nianyun, who waited day and night, and the flowers he was waiting for were almost gone, heard this, as if he had seen the dawn. A pair of eyes full of anticipation for the future.

Yan Lingyue didn't hear anything outside the window, but Mama Li and the four maids could always pay attention to it, and they would tell Yan Lingyue if there was any disturbance in the palace. Queen Xiao was going to let Duan Nianyun enter the palace, and of course Yan Lingyue knew about it.

Zhou Ziyu also knew that Yan Lingyue didn't like Duan Nianyun, and after dinner that night, after the two of them lay down on the bed, Zhou Ziyu pulled Yan Lingyue into his arms and took the initiative to mention Duan Nianyun.

"If Duan Nianyun enters the palace, Yue'er ignores her, and she is the right to not exist. If you don't like her, you will find a reason to rectify her," Zhou Ziyu said as he played with Yan Lingyue's hand.

When Yan Lingyue heard this, she laughed, "Isn't this a bully for me, the king?" ”

"Yes, Queen Lone, do whatever you want," Zhou Ziyu lowered his head and kissed Yan Lingyue's lips.

"Then the queen mother knows, it's time to talk to me again," Yan Lingyue hugged Zhou Ziyu's neck and kissed back for a while.

Zhou Ziyu listened to it and felt a little guilty, "I'm sorry, Yue'er." Let you be wronged by the queen mother. ”