Later in the day, the sun faded lazily, a rare warm day in winter made people unable to lift their energy, the quiet in the dormitory could almost hear the flow of time, Bao Xi and Ji Gong Yan's foreheads were full of sweat, and the hair was soaked with sweat and stuck to the forehead, Ji Gong Yan stroked Bao Xi's long hair and smelled the natural fragrance that emanated from her body.

The two of them were lying down like this without saying a word, because there was no lack of heavy concerns in everyone's hearts, and everyone was deducing the outcome of the confrontation in this chess game on their own chessboard, originally Ji Gongyan sent the princes of any country to send troops to the north of Jin to resist the division of Beidi with the majesty of the Son of Heaven It is a very ordinary thing, but it involves so many princes with their own ghosts, in the end, no one will be at ease under the rule of the Great Zhou Dynasty, if there is a chance, who doesn't want to be king in one fell swoop?

There was a sudden knock on the door, and Bao Xi and Ji Gongyan were suddenly pulled back to reality from their contemplation. Bao Xi turned to the door and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

It was Xiuxiu's voice that came from outside the door, and she replied to Bao Xi, "Niangniang, the prince was taken away by Mrs. Chu!" ”

"What?" Bao Xi sat up from the bed suddenly, pulled his dress from the side and scribbled it on himself, hurriedly tied the strap on the dress, Ji Gongyan also got up and dragged his clothes and draped them on his body, and only after the two of them were dressed did he step forward and opened the door, Xiuxiu lowered his head and didn't dare to look at Bao Xi and Ji Gongyan, and said in a panic, "Just now I took the prince to put paper kites outside, and the paper kites fell in the lotus pond outside the Huachen Palace, and when I picked up the paper kites, I happened to bump into Mrs. Chu, Mrs. Chu insisted on taking the prince back to Youyang Palace. When she said this, she was already sweating profusely.

"I'll go to Youyang Palace to have a look!" Bao Xi said, straightened his hair, and put it back in a bun.

"Let's go with a widow!" Ji Gongyan also said and pulled Bao Xi's arm, Bao Xi turned around and glanced at Ji Gongyan, then shook his head and patted his hand, "Mrs. Chu won't do anything about Nian'er, after all, Nian'er's meaning to the king, she couldn't be clearer in her heart, she kidnapped Nian'er just to want to know what the king is doing in the East Palace these days, this kind of thing is still to ask the concubine to go, right?" ”

"If she deliberately embarrasses you, don't go toe-to-toe with her! Come back to the widow. Ji Gongyan instructed, a little worried about the confrontation between Bao Xi and Mrs. Chu, and now he even wanted to push Bao Xi to this back position. Now Empress Shen is still in the harem, although she lives in the cold palace, she must hate Bao Xi very much, he has made so many enemies for her for no reason, and now Bao Xi is really walking on thin ice and trembling in the palace.

Bao Xi nodded to Ji Gongyan and patted his arm, meaning to reassure him, Xiuxiu took Bao Xi's cotton jacket and draped it outside, walked out of the East Palace with her, and walked towards Youyang Palace, Mrs. Chu was teasing Nian'er at the moment, and took out those small snacks in her palace for Nian'er to eat, but Nian'er turned her face and snorted coldly, her little face was full of arrogant expressions, and she disdained to take care of the woman she didn't know in front of her.

"Don't you like it?" Mrs. Chu asked with a smile.

"Nian'er is going back to the East Palace, my mother will be in a hurry!" Nian'er turned to look at Mrs. Chu and said, looking at her face is the appearance of a little girl, giving people the feeling that Mrs. Chu is younger than Xiuxiu, but Nian'er just can't raise the slightest interest in this seemingly small person, from the moment he entered this Youyang Palace, all he wanted was to go out.

"Mother?" Mrs. Chu sneered, "Who is your mother?" ”

"Of course my mother is a compliment!" Nian'er pouted and said, this sentence made Mrs. Chu laugh out loud, and laughed for a long time before touching Nian'er's head and caressing it and said, "Do you know that your biological mother has died a long time ago!" ”

"Yes!" Nian'er looked at Mrs. Chu and said simply, but as soon as these words came out, Mrs. Chu's face was extremely ugly, "My biological mother died in childbirth when she gave birth to me, and my father buried her in the royal tomb with the etiquette of the queen, and my mother took me to see it!" ”

This matter was something that Mrs. Chu had never thought of, Bao Xi didn't hide these things from her son from the beginning, and treated each other honestly, at this moment, Mrs. Chu wanted to sow discord and couldn't start, and suddenly the voice of the people came from outside the door, "See Niangniang!" ”

Mrs. Chu turned her face to look at the door, Bao Xi strode in, her expression was serious without a trace of a smile, she walked in front of Mrs. Chu, stretched out her hand, Nian'er jumped down from the chair and ran into Bao Xi's arms, took Bao Xi's hand and looked up at her and said, "Mother, this aunt is so strange!" ”

"It's called Mrs. Chu." Bao Xi pulled Nian'er, stared at Mrs. Chu with straight eyes and said.

"Mrs. Chu!" Nian'er shouted obediently, and Bao Xi handed Nian'er to Xiuxiu, "Take Nian'er back first!" ”

"Yes, sissy." Xiuxiu pulled Nian'er to take the order, turned around and walked towards the outside of Youyang Palace, Mrs. Chu looked at Bao Xi with a smile and asked, "Is Nian'er too nervous after Bao, I just looked at Nian'er, remembering that Mrs. Zheng took good care of me in Huachen Hall that day, so I wanted to take Nian'er back to the palace to play for a while, and then send Nian'er back to you!" ”

"No need," Bao Xi said, "I will naturally take care of Nian'er, and Mrs. Chu will not bother." ”

"Why are you so nervous?" Madame Chu took a step closer to Bao Xi and asked, "Are you afraid that I will meet the king in the East Palace?" ”

"I'm afraid or not afraid of this matter, Mrs. Chu should know it in her heart." Bao Xi looked at Mrs. Chu and said, not wanting to argue with her in these matters, "Mrs. Chu still has to be clear about her identity, the lady in the palace, you can't be aggressive with the king!" You are the king's woman, not the other way around. ”

"Hmph......" Mrs. Chu snorted coldly, and then she felt that she had lost her temper, looked at Bao Xi and said, "Niangniang can be regarded as a far-sighted person who plans for a rainy day, and she actually told him that Nian'er was not your biological early in the morning, aren't you worried that sooner or later Nian'er will unite with outsiders to deal with you?" ”

"Why worry?" Bao Xi looked at Mrs. Chu and asked, "Mrs. Chu has too many things to worry about. After all, Mrs. Chu and Chu Hou are not really brother and sister, if something happens to Mrs. Chu, Chu Hou may not really help each other, always weigh the strength and safety of his country, and then calculate whether it is worth helping this time! But Mrs. Chu is wrong, if you can't do your best to Chu Hou, I'm afraid that Chu Hou will betray you, and the consequences will be embarrassing! ”

"I don't have the ability to praise the queen, not only do I have the Bao family behind me, but I also have Zheng Bo's sincere treatment regardless of life and death." When Mrs. Chu said this, there was inevitably some sour tone in her tone.

"The heart of man is mutual, and if you treat others with sincerity, they will treat you with sincerity. Now that the Marquis of Chu is aggressive, trying to lead the division of the Chu State to enter the territory of the Jin State for thousands of miles, you want to rely on the Marquis of Chu to dominate the entire east, so as to blackmail the king to favor you, not to mention that this move is too sad, what if the Marquis of Chu is defeated? You will completely lose the reinforcements you can rely on, and there will be no place for you in this palace. Bao Xi looked at Mrs. Chu and said, she inevitably felt that this person was too pitiful, compared to Mrs. Qin, compared to Empress Shen, and compared to Mrs. Zheng...... Compared to any woman who has been favored by Ji Gongyan, she is too pitiful, "Mrs. Chu has forgotten that you were also from the Qi State, and you also had the Qi State to protect you, but you betrayed the Qi State for others." ”

"That's for the king!" Mrs. Chu's eyes were red, and she stared at Bao Xi with tears in her eyes.

"But in the end, you betrayed the king in order to be able to possess it!" Bao Xi looked at Mrs. Chu and said, then shook her head, took out a sign of the East Palace from her arms and handed it to Mrs. Chu, "If you want to enter and leave the palace, you can rely on the token of my East Palace, but Mrs. Chu can think clearly in her heart, if the Marquis of Chu goes out this time, although there is no way to make him defeat me, there are many plans for me to make him lose!" Bao Xi dropped these words and turned around and walked towards the door, this time Mrs. Chu did not stop her, but looked at the token in her hand blankly, her brows furrowed tightly.

In the early morning of the fifth day, there were very few old ministers waiting for the court outside the palace gate, Chu Hou was surprised to find that even Jin Bo had lost his trace, once he lost the support of Jin Bo, he wanted to force Ji Gongyan to send himself out of the army, but he was afraid that the hope would be even smaller, Chu Hou glanced at the officials in front of the palace gate, turned around and threw his sleeves away, and went straight to Jin Bo's mansion in the city, knocked on the door a few times, only one person came to answer the door, lowered his head and said, "Jin Bo is not in the mansion today." Then he hurriedly closed the door again.

Chu Hou ate a closed door, his heart was angry, his hands were clenched tightly, his whole chest was suppressed by angry anger, and he strode towards his house, and someone came to report on the way, "Chu Hou, Mrs. Chu is here!" ”

"Mrs. Chu?" Chu Hou frowned, the entire palace has been surrounded by water these days, how did Mrs. Chu come out of it? After thinking about it, he felt that the whole thing was a little wrong, Ji Gongyu tried to make people think that he was indulging in the happy atmosphere of the East Palace all day long because he was infatuated with Bao Xi, but the fact was that his silence had gradually disintegrated the entire alliance of Chu Hou, which made Chu Hou inevitably feel a little uneasy, plus he had never seen Wen Shuo on this trip, where did Wen Shuo go? What he was doing, he inevitably had some speculation in his heart.

Chu Hou entered the mansion, Mrs. Chu was already waiting for him, Chu Hou lowered his head and stepped in, looked at Mrs. Chu and said, "See Madame." ”

"Brother and I don't have to be polite," Mrs. Chu said with a smile as she looked at Chu Hou and pulled the corners of her mouth.