It was late at night, and the lights in the Qingxuan Hall were bright, like day.

Qingli came over at this time, and he also wanted to know how the emperor planned to deal with the "grievances" between the queen and the queen mother.

"Master." She saluted respectfully, no different than before.

Zhuang Chenchen glanced at her at this time and put down the fold in his hand. "Why is it so late?"

"The queen mother has a high fever, and the slave maid serves the mother to take medicine, and only comes over when the mother sleeps." Qingli said truthfully.

"What evidence does the queen have in her hand?" Zhuang Chenchen asked directly.

"Master, the queen only has the record book left by Mrs. Cen in the past. The slave maid saw that those were not any evidence, but a record of Mrs. Cen marrying into the Cen Prime Minister's Mansion and taking care of family affairs every day. It's just a trivial chore. There is not a single mention of what the emperor ordered, and there is no evidence to accuse the queen mother. ”

Hearing her say this, Zhuang Chenchen didn't make a sound.

"Master, the slave and maid listened to your orders and went to serve the queen's mother, and it has been almost a year in the blink of an eye." Qingli said with a solemn face: "Over the past year, the slave maid has always remembered her identity, and while serving the queen, she also remembered your master's orders. It is true that the queen has never planned and deployed in the palace because of anything in the Chu family and Cen Xiangfu, and everything she did was around the emperor. Even if he has been eager to find out the truth about his mother's tragic death, he does not dare to take a step beyond Lei Chi. This incident, if it weren't for the Queen Mother herself's admission, the Queen Mother would still endure it. Master, Qingli has been by your side for so many years, although he is not clever, but he has always been loyal, this time, the slave begs the emperor for your kindness, don't blame the queen. ”

"Got it, go ahead." Zhuang Zhenchen didn't need to explain anything to Qingli.

In fact, he likes to go to the queen's Fengling Palace, not because of the queen's beauty, or because of the two forces behind her. Rather, she really understands his mind, and even if she wants to go past him to track down his mother, there will be room for comfort.

Qingli moved his lips and stepped back respectfully: "The slave and maid retreat." ”

She knows her master's temperament too well, and although the queen's doing this is not a big mistake, it has also touched his bottom line.

It has been said that the queen has a high fever, and the master didn't say a word, so she must be very angry......

Yin Li took the long candle and replaced the short one. But he still couldn't help but persuade: "Master, the hour is not early, let's rest early." The New Year is approaching, and the outside is not peaceful, and tomorrow morning, hundreds of officials will enter the court to discuss matters, and I am afraid they will be busy. ”

"There you go." Zhuang Chenchen waved his hand: "Rong Zhen will look at it for a while." ”

"Yes." Yin Li couldn't ask for this, he had been looking for an opportunity to get close to Qingli, so naturally he couldn't miss this time.

Rushing out of the Qingxuan Palace, chasing all the way in the direction of the Fengling Palace, it was not easy to catch up with the extremely fast pace of Qingli. Yin Li didn't think much about it, and naturally put his hand on the shoulder of the green plow.

"Ahh Qing Li let out a short exclamation, suddenly turned around and kicked Yin Li's abdomen.

"Hmm!" Yin Li didn't have time to take precautions, and he was kicked firmly, and his tears were about to fall from the pain.

"What are you doing...... Yin Li originally wanted to complain about how she tried so hard, but when he looked at her, he found that she was trembling with fear, and she was standing in place with a shrunken face. Are you okay? It's all my fault, I shouldn't have scared you from behind. ”

"It's okay." After Qingli finished saying these three words, he turned around and ran.

"Stop me." Yin Li endured the pain and performed light exercises, and the blink of an eye was in front of her. "How long are you going to be afraid? How long will you be tormented by this? The person who bullied you, the queen has already died, and it is impossible for him to come out and harm you again. The reason why you are still so scared and reject me is because you can't get along with yourself, do you understand? ”

"That's enough." Qingli was full of panic: "The queen acted against her master for revenge. Yin Li, you have served the master longer than me, you should understand how the master will treat the mother. Right now, I can't bother with this thing, I don't have the heart to think about anything else. What's more, I have already made it very clear to you in the prayer hall that day, don't pester me anymore. ”

Yin Li stretched out his arms and blocked her way. "I also made it very clear to you that I will accompany you in whatever you want to do. I didn't think there was anything wrong with the past, and you won't have to deal with it alone in the future. ”

"When I like you, you don't even bother to look at me." Qingli frowned and said: "You are the most face-saving subordinate by the master's side, and all the people will flatter you, hoping to please you and let you say a few good words in front of the master." And I am just a slave to the master, and I am fortunate to be given the name of the master, which is already a great honor, where can I compare with you. If you don't think of me at all, why do you say these things now? Yin Li, do you pity me, or do you think that I will never have a future except for following you? ”

"How can you think that?" Yin Li frowned, his face slightly unhappy. "In the past, I thought that the most important thing was to serve the master well. But after experiencing some things, I realized that fate is fleeting, and if you don't hold on tightly, you will only regret it. That time, I almost lost you. ”

He stepped forward and gritted his teeth and grabbed Qingli's shoulders. He knew that Qingli was very resistant to this, but he still held her shoulders very hard. "I almost lost you, do you know how much I regret it? I regret that I didn't treat you well earlier, I regret that I didn't tell you earlier, in fact, I care about you just as much. I regret it even more, I had the opportunity to hold your hand and grow old together, but I used all kinds of reasons to force myself to wait a little longer, wait, wait, wait, you almost disappeared from my eyes. Qingli, I really like you, it's not sympathy, it's not pity, it's not that I feel that you have no other happiness besides me. But I have no other happiness than you. Do you believe me? ”

"Why do you have to say these things when it's not right?" Qingli was in tears, struggling desperately. But his strength is very great, no matter how he hammers his shoulder, breaks his hand, really tramples on his foot, he just refuses to let go. "As I said, I can't leave the Queen Mother at this time. I have to serve her well. ”

"I didn't let you leave the queen mother, I'm willing to wait, wait until you are willing to marry me." Yin Li endured all kinds of pain, and finally desperately held her in his arms. "Qingli, I will never let you disappear from my sight again, not for a day. We can serve our masters together, share our worries together, and we can live a good life hand in hand. But don't say that your future has nothing to do with me. ”

Qingli's heart seemed to be stung by a bee, sweet and painful. She slowly unloaded her strength, shrunk into Yin Li's arms and cried loudly.

Yin Li stroked her back again and again, and coaxed with doting: "If you cry like a flower, it's not beautiful." ”

Zhuang Xianchen stood not far away, quietly looking at this pair of beautiful people, and always felt that this picture seemed familiar.

He also once held a weak woman and wept in his arms. He also used to protect her from the wind and rain. But in the end, instead of giving her the slightest care, he became her life-threatening talisman. He will never forget that when Zi Xuan died in his arms, the helplessness and bitterness, as if the whole person had been hollowed out.

He even wanted to exchange his life for her life, without her every day, life is better than death.

Since then, all the women in this world have only been her illusionary shadows. Instead of her, she accompanied him to talk, with meals, martial arts, and calligraphy. Some women's eyebrows and eyes are similar to her, some women's figures are as good as her, and some women's voices are as sweet as hers, dotted together.

Once he found out, they were not her at all, they couldn't replace her at all, and that hatred was enough to devour him. Those women, they all deserve to die, they all deserve to die!

He stood in the cold wind, shivering, all these years have passed, even Yin Li has a green plow, and he is still alone.

The women around him did not ignore him. Even if it's the mother-in-law.

"Lord...... The master ......" After Yin Li kissed Qingli, he was embarrassed to find that Zhuang Chenchen was standing not far away, and his face suddenly became hot. "Does the master have any other orders?"

"Nope." Zhuang Chenchen retracted his thoughts: "You guys go on." ”

He turned around, feeling only a special sadness. It's like there's no end to this winter.

"Let's go, I'll send you back to the palace first." Yin Li held Qingli's hand and said thoughtfully: "The wind is cool, put my cloak on." ”

"Don't." Qingli broke free of his hand, and said with some embarrassment: "The master obviously has something on his mind, you can go and take a look." I'll go back on my own. ”

Without waiting for Yin to leave, she said to him in a begging tone, "If you can, please help Niangniang." ”

"Don't worry." Yin Li nodded: "Actually, the master is affectionate to Niangniang." ”

"I hope so." Qingli was wrapped in a cloak by Yin Li, and it was really warm. She quickly disappeared into the night, just worried that the queen would wake up and there would be no one around to take care of her.

Yin Li returned to the inner hall and said respectfully: "Master, my subordinates want to ask you to marry me and Qingli." ”

"Okay." Zhuang Chenchen replied casually, and said: "The queen mother is unwell, didn't Helian say that her illness would recur?" This year's reunion banquet in the palace will be canceled, I am worried about the phoenix body of the queen mother, and I have no intention of greedy for the cup. In addition, the Yulin garrison was sent to guard the Fengluan Palace, and there were three imperial doctors in the palace, who stayed in their posts every day. Those who should serve are replaced once every three days. ”

"Yes." Yin Li agreed, but saw that his face was still not good. "Master, it's late at night, so it's better to rest early."

"What does it feel like to like someone?" Zhuang Chenchen suddenly asked.

Yin Li frowned slightly, but was not silent: "I hope she can always be by her side, no matter what happens, she will not be separated." ”