On October 18 of the tenth year of Yong'an, when Emperor Yong'an returned to the palace.

Long Yuan drove in through the side gate of the palace, and without making any stops on the way, he drove directly into the Taihe Palace.

After the concubines found out, they went to the Zichen Palace to ask Emperor Yong'an for peace, wanting to take the opportunity of asking for peace to explore the truth of the rumors.

Unfortunately, none of them could do so.

Gonggong Feng stood on the cloister and sent them all away with just one sentence, "Spread the emperor's message, I am very tired when I return from the paddock, so wait for my return." ”

At three o'clock, under the service of lotus leaves and Qiaozhu, Lingxi changed into a beige embroidered large peony placket waist palace dress, pulled a cloud bun, and hairpinned gardenia-shaped beads and begonias to shake.

After packing up, she went to greet Emperor Yong'an.

The lights in the Zichen Hall were bright, and the minions were all solemn, even the most inferior rough slaves were tight-faced, without a trace of expression on their faces.

On the corridor, Xiao Jingzi saw Lingxi coming in and greeted him from a distance, and after greeting Lingxi, he said, "Ye Guifei Niangniang, why are you here at such a late hour?" ”

Lingxi smiled faintly at Xiao Jingzi and said, "When the emperor returns to the palace, he doesn't look at the palace, and he always feels that he can't fall in his heart." ”

Xiao Jingzi looked embarrassed and said in a low voice, "Ye Guifei Niangniang, the emperor has already issued an edict, and he said that no one will come." ”

Lingxi lowered his eyes and smiled indifferently, "Since it is a word of mouth, the palace will go back." Wait for the emperor to go down to the early dynasty, and the palace will come again......"

With that, he held the lotus leaf hand and turned to leave.

But before she walked out of the distance of three zhang away, there was a soft call from Gonggong Feng behind her, "Ye Guifei Niangniang, please stay." ”

Gonggong Feng hurriedly ran down from the corridor, walked in front of Lingxi, and after greeting Lingxi, he raised his head and said, "Ye Guifei Niangniang, the emperor invites you in." ”

Lingxi raised his eyebrows lightly, looking at Gonggong Feng's eyes with a hint of doubt.

"The emperor did not see anyone, but among these people, there is no Niangniang." Gonggong Feng leaned to the side and bowed to Lingxi, "Niangniang, the emperor is waiting for you inside." ”

Lingxi bowed slightly, holding the hand of the lotus leaf to the corridor.

In front of the palace gate, Gonggong Feng said again, "Concubine Ye Guiniang, the emperor asked you to go in alone, and the old slave will not follow up." ”

Lotus Ye let go of Lingxi's arm when he heard this, blessed Lingxi, and said, "Niangniang, the slave is waiting for you outside." ”

Hearing this, Lingxi breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, straightened his waist, raised his head high, lifted his skirt and walked into the Zichen Palace.

Inside the Zichen Palace, it was no different from when she came in the past, the only difference was that it was empty.

When Lingxi walked to the door of the inner hall, there was a heavy 'squeak' outside, and the door of the temple was closed by Gong Feng.

Lingxi's heart sank, and his face became a little pale.

Walking through the empty inner hall with her skirt lifted, Lingxi came to the dormitory of Zichen Palace.

In the dormitory, only the painting stands on one side of the dragon couch, and in the middle of the hall, ambergris is burning in the incense tripod of the two dragons playing with pearls.

Pinhua saw Lingxi walk in, said hello to Lingxi, and retreated.

Lingxi stood on the side of Xiangding and did not move forward.

She bowed down to the blessing of the dragon bed and said softly, "The concubine asks the emperor for peace, the emperor is auspicious." ”

There was no sound for a long time, and in the entire Zichen Palace, it was as if there was only one Lingxi.

A trace of uneasiness suddenly rose in Lingxi's heart, and Fu's body there couldn't help but tremble.

Standing up straight, Lingxi walked towards the dragon bed. When he saw the bulging human figure in the bright yellow silk veil curtain, Lingxi's heart was even more worried.

"Sit down next to me." Emperor Yong'an on the bed spoke up.

Lingxi's body trembled and stopped.

After stabilizing his mind, Lingxi walked to the dragon couch and slowly lifted the bed curtain, and saw Emperor Yong'an.

After only a few days, Emperor Yong'an seemed to have aged by more than ten years all of a sudden. He was lying on the dragon couch, his eyes slightly closed, and his face was full of vicissitudes.

Lingxi sat down on the edge of the bed, reached out and held Emperor Yong'an's hand on the bright yellow brocade quilt, and said softly, "Your Majesty, since you are tired, you can rest in peace." The concubine has only been seen for a few days, and I just want to see it......"

"Let's talk to me about the harem." Emperor Yong'an still closed his eyes and asked, "But someone has rumored that I want to be a guest?" ”

Lingxi held Emperor Yong'an's hand tightly and comforted him softly, "Your Majesty, how can it be? ”

Emperor Yong'an opened his eyes and looked straight at the Lingxi, his eyes were vicissitudes, but his gaze was still sharp, as if he could see through the soul of the Lingxi.

"You don't have to comfort me, I know what they're thinking." Emperor Yong'an's throat squirmed up and down, and he said, "I also know what you're thinking. ”

Lingxi smiled forcefully and said to Emperor Yong'an, "Your Majesty, you are worried about ......?"

Emperor Yong'an's gaze slid over Lingxi's body and landed on the curtain of the bed behind her, and said, "Since I asked you in, I didn't think of hiding it from you. ”

Lingxi's heart tightened, and his body trembled uncontrollably.

"What are you afraid of?" Emperor Yong'an felt Lingxi's trembling and asked bluntly.

Lingxi shook his head slightly, lowered his eyes and didn't dare to look directly at Emperor Yong'an's eyes, "The concubine is not afraid of anything. ”

Emperor Yong'an didn't ask any more questions, and after a long sigh, he said, "I fell off my horse in the paddock. After all, it took three days of fainting to wake up......"

Lingxi couldn't help but grasp Emperor Yong'an's generous hand, and he didn't know what he should say for a while.

"Imperial Physician Wang said to me...... Emperor Yong'an raised his right hand, lightly pointed to his chest, and said, "My internal organs have been broken......

"The Emperor's ......"

Emperor Yong'an raised his hand to interrupt Lingxi's words and said, "I don't know how long I can be awake, you listen to me finish speaking." ”

Lingxi nodded lightly and stopped talking.

"I have been on the throne for ten years, and I have not made a prince. If I had a case, the harem would be in chaos. Emperor Yong'an looked at Lingxi's face and said, "I want to set up a crown prince to stabilize the dynasty, but King Kening is not the person I want, and I will make an order tomorrow to make the seventh prince the crown prince." Lingxi, you can understand my painstaking efforts! ”

Lingxi nodded repeatedly, tears sliding down the corners of her eyes.

"King Ping, King Ning's devotion to the throne is not a day or two, I am the queen of heaven, they will definitely use all means to force the palace, in the case of the monarch is unknown, the life of the emperor's heir in the palace is worried." Emperor Yong'an clenched Lingxi's hand, his eyes widened, and said, "Lingxi, although I have not been canonized as the queen of your middle palace, the phoenix order of the middle palace is already in your hands. I only hope that you will defend the palace and not let them slaughter the heirs. When the new monarch is established, you become the concubine of the previous dynasty, and you will move to the palace with the imperial heirs......"

"Your Majesty......" Lingxi Hui held Emperor Yong'an's hand, "You will definitely be fine, you ......"

"I'm old." Emperor Yong'an let go of Lingxi's hand, raised his hand and stroked Lingxi's hair, and a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, "I just feel sorry for you, sorry for Xiaowan." Lingxi, if I am not the king, you are the wife, Xiaowan is the concubine, and your life is enough. ”

Lingxi hid his face and wept, his chest was like a boulder, and it was so heavy that it couldn't be overcome.

"Wiped away tears." Emperor Yong'an stretched out his hand to wipe away Lingxi's tears and said, "Go back and remember what I said." ”

Lingxi stood up, knelt down to Emperor Yong'an, and cried, "Your Majesty, the concubines must guard the palace and protect the safety of all the imperial heirs." ”

On October 19 of the tenth year of Yong'an, Emperor Yong'an, who occasionally felt cold after returning from the paddock, decreed that Li Lingzhe, the seventh prince who had not yet returned to the palace in the suburbs of Beijing, was the crown prince.

As soon as the holy decree was issued, the front and back harems were in an uproar.

Some of the wise concubines in the harem are already sitting in their own palaces and hiding their faces and crying.

When the people in the harem were panicked, Lingxi came to the small Buddha hall behind the Changle Palace, and calmed down to chant the Buddha with Xiao and the Empress Dowager.

When Lingxi silently recited the Heart Sutra in his heart until the eleventh time, Xiao and the Empress Dowager knocked on the wooden fish on her side.

A 'bang' announced the end of this recitation.

The Empress Dowager Xiaohe turned sideways and said to Lingxi, "Girl, is it almost winter?" ”

Lingxi nodded, "Ancestor, it's late autumn. ”

"I don't know if the mourning family can't get this year's thousand years." The Empress Dowager Xiaohe picked up the dragon head crutch at her side and got up from the futon.

Lingxi hurriedly reached out to help and helped Xiao and the Empress Dowager up.

Out of the Buddha Hall, the Empress Dowager Xiaohe looked at the autumn sun and smiled at Lingxi, "Girl, if you want to move to the palace one day, remember to go to Fengyang." ”

In Lingxi's surprised eyes, the Empress Dowager Xiaohe smiled and said, "Mourning family, since I married into the Prince's Mansion at the age of seventeen, I haven't seen the scenery outside the imperial city again. Trapped in the deep palace for decades, the mourning family has long been tired of it. Girl, don't look at the imperial grandmother is old, in fact, the imperial grandmother's heart is still young. ”

The Empress Dowager Xiaohe pointed to Lingxi's chest, and asked with bright eyes, "Do you remember a piece of jade pendant that the mourning family once rewarded you when they returned to the palace?" You put on your ...... at the time."

Lingxi nodded, the jade with an ordinary color and a simple style Lingxi has been carefully collecting.

"Just wear it." The Empress Dowager Xiaohe was lying on the side of Lingxi's ear, her voice was old, but her tone was rare and cheerful, "There is a secret passage in the palace of Fengyang, and the mourning family has been in the palace for six years, and they often sneak out......"

Lingxi laughed, and looked at Xiaohe and the Empress Dowager with bright eyes, "No wonder the old ancestor has been reluctant to return to the palace......"

The Empress Dowager Xiaohe took Lingxi's hand and walked to the Changle Palace, and sighed, "Girl, we women, especially the women in our palace, have been soaked in bitter bile in this life......"

On October 20, the tenth year of Yong'an, King Ping asked for an order to go to the Beijing suburb of the palace to pick up the crown prince Li Lingzhe and the prince's biological mother Concubine Yi back to the palace.

As soon as the excerpt was handed over, King Ping did not wait for Emperor Yong'an to make a Zhu approval, but had already ordered 10,000 troops in the school field and went straight to the outskirts of Beijing.

At the same time, King Ning was also ready to move in the palace, and Shen Feng, who was loyal to King Ning, was guarding the palace gate with a phoenix order, and just waiting for the news from King Ning, he opened the palace gate with a phoenix order to welcome the army into the imperial city.

In the harem, Lingxi pretended to be filial piety and the Empress Dowager's decree, and gathered all the princes in the Changle Hall to accompany Xiao and the Empress Dowager to enjoy together.

On October 20, the tenth year of Yong'an, at the end of the day, red fireworks were lit up three times in the night sky far away from the palace......