The palace of the four kings was still silent, but the tulips in the garden were destroyed at some point, the petals were scattered all over the ground, and the lonely flower stems were screaming in the breeze. A faint wind blows, the petals that fall to the ground fly with the wind, and a burst of floral fragrance comes to the surface, but it makes people feel inexplicably lonely.

Xichu Luning walked into the courtyard, seeing the devastation, he couldn't help frowning, at this time, a maid on the side suddenly landed, Xichu Luning adjusted his posture slightly, and looked condescendingly at the maid kneeling on one knee.

"What did you find?"

The maid seemed to hesitate for a moment before she whispered, "Palace Master Liang's family...... Nowhere to be seen, and the maid we sent to keep an eye on her was found dead halfway up the mountain. ”

"What?" Xichu Lu Ning looked surprised, "Could it be that their family has discovered your traces...... Wrong! ”

She looked at the maid in front of her with a pale face, "What did Xichu Yueling and Prince Ming Xiu do last night?" ”

"This ......," the waitress didn't look good, "the people who were sent to follow Her Royal Highness and Her Royal Highness the Crown Prince last night have not returned today. ”

Xichu Lu Ning took a deep breath, she caught a glimpse of the broken petals on the side of the road, her eyes were slightly condensed, "Prepare, let's go to the palace again......"

A deep voice interrupted Xi Chu Lu Ning's words, and a maid outside hurriedly came in, "Lord Qiqi, Her Royal Highness the Eldest Empress cooperated with Prince Ming Xiu to enter the imperial study in the afternoon, and she has never come out yet." ”

Xichu Lu Ning's face suddenly turned pale, "In addition to the two of them, who else did you bring?" ”

"Wushuang County Lord Chu Nian, and there is also a blind male attendant."

"The blind waiter." Xichu Lu Ning clenched his fists, "It's still a step too late." ”

She anxiously paced back and forth in the devastated courtyard, "What about the five princesses?" Where are you now? ”

"The Fifth Imperial Maiden is still in the palace of the Eldest Imperial Maiden."

"Then now-" Xichu Lu Ning suddenly raised his head, "Go and give a letter to Gao Chengong Major!" Just tell him to go to the imperial study, the situation is urgent, and he can't be lazy! ”

"Yes!"

After the two maids left, Xi Chu Lu Ning turned around and looked at the garden in front of him with gloomy eyes, "Chu Nian, you are really as tricky as the news says." ”

……

In the imperial study, the empress and the empress sat side by side, and there were four people standing in front of them, with a person dressed as a waiter behind Xi Chu Yue Ling and Ming Xiu.

Needless to say, Chu Nian behind Ming Xiu was a little strange at this moment, she looked strangely at the waiter who stood silently behind Xi Chu Yue Ling with his head bowed, "Ling Er is very strange today, the person who doesn't even bring a maid on weekdays actually brought an extra male waiter today?" ”

The empress looked behind Xichu Yue Ling with interest, "Raise your head and show me, if Ling Er really likes it, she will accept it as a side concubine, if it is a side concubine, I will not stop it......"

Probably Xi Chu Yueling behaved too coldly on weekdays, no matter how many excellent noble children the empress and queen recommended to her, she mostly looked down on her, and this time she actually brought a male attendant, which really made the empress feel fresh, but after waiting for a long time, the male attendant always just lowered his head and did not speak.

The empress frowned, and her gaze fell on the face of Xichu Yueling, who seemed to be a little embarrassed in front of her.

Seeing that the empress was displeased, Xichu Yueling turned around slightly, exposing the entire male attendant behind him, and at this moment, the queen on the side opened her mouth and said softly: "You can raise your head, Your Majesty just looks at you, you won't ...... Hiss! ”

The waiter raised his head, and it was Mr. Liang's handsome face, and the faces of the empress and the empress were all stunned, and then he saw the empress stand up, and her hands trembled and stretched out to Mr. Liang, "You are ...... Egrets? ”

Mr. Liang's eyes were still tightly closed, but his eyelashes trembled slightly, as if the lifeless eyeballs in them were revived again, he reached out and groped forward, the empress suddenly bypassed the table in front of her, and walked to Mr. Liang's hand, but when she came to the front, the originally open hand hesitated for a while, and the big sleeve fell, and grabbed Mr. Liang's outstretched hand through the sleeve.

Touching the luxurious fabric under his hand, Mr. Liang's face tightened slightly, but after a while, the corners of his mouth were relieved, and he said softly: "Your Majesty." ”

The two were relatively speechless, and Mr. Liang seemed to be able to see the empress in front of him with tears in her eyes from the darkness in front of her.

Xi Chu Yueling's eyes flashed slightly, and the queen on the side slowly got up and looked at Chu Nian and the others, "At this moment, the chrysanthemums in the imperial garden are in full bloom, has Your Highness not seen it?" ”

Ming Xiu frowned and looked at the queen in front of him, and nodded slightly.

The empress glanced at the queen gratefully, and saw that the queen was half-lowered and slightly blessed, and walked out of the imperial garden with the group, leaving the empress and Mr. Liang alone.

When he left the imperial study, the queen still had that impeccable smile on her face, and he led the three of them slowly around the corridor and went straight to the imperial garden, silent all the way without speaking.

Walking all the way to the royal garden, the sunlight fell through the debris of the leaves, sprinkled on the bluestone slab ground, and the pond on the side was a colorful koi, and at this moment, with the pace of the queen, a group of fish were jumping out of the water happily, making a "whooshing" sound of water.

The queen's eyes fell on the pond, and the waiter who followed immediately handed over the fish food, he smiled, and turned his eyes to look at Ming Xiu and the others, "This fish, I am used to being fed by this palace, and when I meet this palace, I know that there is a small snack coming." ”

He hooked his lips and smiled, like a spring breeze, Chu Nian and Xi Chu Yueling glanced at each other, and saw Ming Xiu pursing his thin lips, his eyes followed the queen's plain hand that was sprinkling fish food, "Presumptuous, isn't the queen angry?" ”

The other two also looked at the queen fixedly, as if they wanted to see a trace of something wrong from the queen's face that was still smiling perfectly, but it was obvious that the queen was unwilling to give them this opportunity, he smiled at Ming Xiu and said, "What did His Royal Highness the Crown Prince say, why is this palace angry?" ”

Ming Xiu stood with his hands in his hands, his eyes fell on the fish that grabbed the food, and he didn't speak, and at this point, he saw the queen continue: "Your Majesty just met with the old man, since he is the old man, this palace should give His Royal Highness this time to talk to the old man, and besides, Your Majesty's harem has three thousand beauties, and there are five or six who can be liked by Your Majesty. ”

When these words fell, Chu Nian seemed to raise his eyes, and he couldn't help crying and laughing at Shang Mingxiu's indulgent eyes, and said softly: "Your Highness is too worried, wasn't the queen the same at the beginning?" ”

Ming Xiu's eyes flashed slightly, and he didn't speak again.

The wind is blowing, the plain white chrysanthemums in full bloom in the imperial garden are swaying slightly with the wind, and there are residual petals falling to the ground, the queen stopped feeding the fish in her hand, and sighed silently, "The flowers are in full bloom, and there will always be a day of decay......

The three people behind him were silent, and after a while, they saw the waitress walking slowly from the direction of the imperial study, "Queen, His Royal Highness the Prince, His Royal Highness the Queen, Your Majesty is invited." ”

Chu Nian and the three of them glanced at each other, the queen leashed first and the maid walked to the imperial study, Chu Nian and the others followed closely behind, and stayed in the imperial study, the empress and Mr. Liang's faces had returned to normal, the two were far apart, the empress was sitting behind the table in the imperial study, Mr. Liang was sitting on the Taishi chair next to the bookshelf not far away, and when he saw the queen come in, the empress smiled like a spring breeze.

"Aifei, come and sit. Ling'er, you sit down too, it just so happens that I have a story to tell you. ”

The three of them sat down beside Mr. Liang obediently, Chu Nian looked sideways, and saw that Mr. Liang's face was calm, and a trace of strangeness suddenly rose in his heart...... The appearance of re-encountering is not like there is no friendship.

Chu Nian suddenly remembered Mrs. Peony's smile, and in the blink of his eyes, he looked at the sincere smile on the corner of Mr. Liang's mouth on the side, and felt awkward.

Maybe compared to the empress who has a harem of 3,000 on the top, the Peony lady who has only Mr. Liang wholeheartedly is the most suitable for Mr. Liang.

"A few years ago." The empress spoke, her eyes collided with Chu Nian, she nodded and smiled, and looked sideways at Mr. Liang, who was sitting quietly on the side, "It was a coincidence that Ah Lu entered the palace, he was sick on the side of the road at the time, I happened to pay a private visit to Weifu, and when I met him, I asked someone to save him, who knew that the fourth prince heard about it later......"

The empress glanced at the queen, and seeing that the queen's face was no different, she continued: "In the past, because the relationship between me and the queen was increasing day by day, the power of the queen's family was leaning towards my hands, and the fourth prince tried to find a way to divide the relationship between me and the queen in order to prevent me from expanding his power. ”

She raised her eyes and looked at the queen with apologetic eyes, "In those days, Concubine Ai suffered a lot of grievances. ”

The queen smiled lightly and did not speak, and the empress let out a sigh of relief, "The fourth prince heard that I had rescued a good-looking man outside, so he tried his best to find Ah Lu and forcibly sent him into the palace. ”

Chu Nian noticed that Mr. Liang's face on his side seemed to be a little pale, probably because the memory of that time was not very good to recall, and he knew with his toes what the fourth prince would do to this beautiful man who looked weak.

"Back then, Ah Lu's eyes were very beautiful." The empress raised her eyes and looked at Mr. Liang, "But I already had a queen at that time, so naturally I would not be easily tempted by others, and after a year or two, we were all safe, until Ah Lu made that golden silk dress for me - it was the first time I had seen such invulnerable clothes, but within a few days, I really met the assassin, and I relied on that golden silk dress to save a life." ”

The empress and the empress glanced at each other, and both looked at Mr. Liang with gratitude, Mr. Liang smiled lightly and nodded, and then saw the empress continue: "Since then, the concubines have begun to frame Ah Lu who has been rewarded by me in every way, and due to the power behind these concubines, I originally planned to turn a blind eye, and the queen secretly protected Ah Lu in private, who ......knows."

At this time, the voice of the maid suddenly sounded outside the door, and everyone looked up and saw that the maid had walked in with a pale face.

"Your Majesty, the palace master of Gao Chen is here."

"Gao Chen? Isn't he sick all the time? The empress looked at the queen beside her with a look of surprise, but a dark light flashed in the queen's eyes.

The three of Chu Nian below glanced at each other, Chu Nian looked at Mr. Liang sideways, and sure enough, there seemed to be a trace of embarrassment on Mr. Liang's face at this moment, he got up and said, "Your Majesty, I'll avoid ...... first"

"No need," a somewhat hoarse voice sounded, and everyone looked up, and saw a luxurious figure slowly walking into the door, and his beautiful eyes looked at Mr. Liang who was sitting beside Chu Nian with a smile, "Palace Master Liang, long time no see." ”