Chen Jianjun felt bored staying in the house, stood up and walked out, and Yuan Hong hurriedly followed. Chen Jianjun stood under the corridor for a while and said, "Go to Anxi Palace!" ”

Jin Ling'er in Anxi Palace has not gone to bed yet, and has been waiting for Chen Jianjun to arrive under the lamp. Hearing the news that the emperor had arrived, he hurriedly greeted him.

Jin Ling'er experienced the pain of bereavement not long ago, and her health has been poor during this time, and she is taking medicine to recuperate. But because Chen Jianjun finally agreed to abolish Chen Youcong's position as the crown prince, she was spared a serious trouble, so she is still in a peaceful state of mind now, and she is kind to Chen Jianjun. For a while, he asked the palace maid to bring the tonic simmering on the fire to Chen Jianjun to eat, and when he saw that he was tired, he had to ask the eunuch who was good at massage to beat his legs and rub his shoulders.

Chen Jianjun felt very tired, he didn't want any of this, so he waved his hand to let these people go down. He just wanted to get a good night's sleep.

After settling down, the lights were turned off, and Chen Jianjun lay on the pillow as if he was asleep. There was silence all around, and the darkness grew thicker and thicker, as if it could float him. Everything around them, beds, tables and chairs, and even houses, are silently changing shapes in this darkness, as if their fixed form is just a camouflage during the day, and it is what they are constantly changing and bouncing under the cover of night.

This made Chen Jianjun feel dizzy. Everything is floating, everything is in constant flux, with no beginning and no end.

He rolled over and grabbed Jin Ling'er's wrist. Although the skin on his wrist had loosened, the shape of the bones and the temperature from his fingertips still made him feel familiar and reassured. After a while, he entered a deeper dream.

Wynn set off for Nanjing on the same day.

The news of Wynne's demotion soon spread throughout the harem and the previous dynasty. At the same time as this news, there were also rumors that the emperor and Zhaoming Zhenren had set a gambling game.

It is said that Zhaoming Zhenren met His Majesty and said that the abolition of the crown prince is against the way of heaven, and if His Majesty insists on doing it, it will bring disaster to the Great Yan. His Majesty was furious, and said that for this year, if his plan to depose the crown prince really caused disaster, he would dispel this idea, and if not, it would prove that Zhaoming Zhenren was only alarmist, and he would burn her at the stake.

His Majesty even made a gambling contract for this, and Zhaoming Zhenren also signed and drew a bet seriously.

Although the emperor made a bet with a real person, in order to abolish the crown prince, it sounds a bit nondescript, but Chen Jianjun has some peculiar behaviors from time to time, and everyone is used to it.

Now the most concerned thing is whether the prophecy of Zhaoming Zhenren is accurate? Will the heavens send disaster because the emperor wants to abolish the elder and the young?

All of a sudden, the cold yamen like Qin Tianjian suddenly became lively. From time to time, people inquired about the news from the officials of Qin Tianjian and asked if there were any signs or visions that had come out recently.

The news about the gambling contract even spread to the people very quickly. Because this matter is not only related to the abolition of the crown prince and the future of Dayan, but also involves the life and death of Zhaoming Zhenren, which is really a hundred times more exciting than listening to books and watching plays. It didn't take long for the streets and alleys to talk about the gambling game between the emperor and the real person, and some people secretly set up a gambling game for this reason, betting on the emperor to win or Zhaoming real person to win. It was actually a bet on Zhaoming to win more than the emperor to win.

However, there are also some people who think they have extraordinary knowledge and are skeptical of this bet. Because of the vast territory of Dayan, there are more or less natural and man-made disasters every year. Either the river has burst its banks, or there is a wildfire, or the wind has blown away the people's houses. Not to mention the victims who die of cold and starvation every winter. What kind of calamity is God's warning? I'm afraid that the elasticity in this is very large, and whether it is counted depends on the emperor's mood.

In fact, this is exactly what Xie Qian, who discussed the idea with Zhang Weizhao, was worried about. He saw that he could not persuade the emperor through formal channels, so he planned to use the rhetoric of the Mandate of God and Ghost to persuade the emperor. Da Yan has a lot of accidents every year, and if he finds one or two suitable ones and renders them by the literati, he can take them out and say that it is a manifestation of the Mandate of Heaven, and he thinks that it is inappropriate to abolish the prince, so he uses this way to warn.

But it is still unknown whether there will be a suitable event, whether it can be successfully rendered, and finally recognized by the emperor.

He encouraged Zhang Weizhao to set up this bureau that day because he knew that Zhang Weizhao had a subtle influence on the emperor. Xie Qian was ostensibly an orthodox Confucian scholar, but in fact he was flexible and flexible, and he did not mind using this subtle influence of Zhang Weizhao on the emperor to achieve his goals.

But what he didn't expect was that the emperor would make that life-and-death gamble with Zhang Weizhao.

That is to say, if there is no suitable event at the end of this year, or even if there is, it has not been successfully rendered, or it has been rendered very powerfully, but the emperor does not approve of it, Zhang Weizhao will be in danger of being burned to death.

Still, Xie Qian felt that the risk was worth it. For him, as long as he participates in political struggles, he must be mentally prepared to face defeat and death, which is quite normal.

But for Chen Youcong, this gamble made him very shocked and guilty, and even far exceeded the fear that he would lose his position. He secretly made up his mind that if Zhang Weizhao failed in the gambling game, he would desperately protect Zhang Weizhao thoroughly. If not, then stand with her on the stake.

In this incident, the calmest one was Zhang Weizhao.

In fact, she herself knew very well that if she was a native of this plane, it would be impossible for her to maintain this kind of composure. No one can really look at death as if it were home, especially in that fearful way. But for her, she has always had an expectation in her heart, if she comes from the fire, then another fire, can send her back to her hometown?

Even if she can't go back to the original time and space, if life is just a journey from one time and space to another, then what is there to be afraid of crossing the threshold of death and stepping into a new time and space?

Of course, she will have nostalgia, Chen Youcong, the Queen Mother, and the children at school......

But everyone has their own trajectory, if in the dark, she and their intersection is only for this period of time, she has no regrets, because in every relationship, she has lived herself to the fullest, and she also wishes the other party to be able to bloom their lives to the fullest. Being able to live so really, when facing death, there will be a lot less unwillingness and fear.

However, despite the worst she had prepared, there was a feeling in her heart that maybe it wouldn't be too bad.

When discussing with Xie Qian this method of persuading Chen Jianjun under the pretense of the Mandate of Heaven, Xie Qian's plan was to let her go and tell Chen Jianjun to watch the stars at night and read out the heavenly machine. And Zhang Weizhao himself chose copper money divination.

She doesn't know how to look at the sky, and she doesn't know what the connection between the images in the starry sky and the fate of people is. But she believed that human destiny would be foreshadowed by divination. And before she went to find Chen Jianjun, she had a strong premonition about the result of this divination. And then this premonition came true one by one.

Even she felt that Chen Jianjun was resolute about waste storage on the surface, but in fact he was not prepared. When others reach middle age, their vitality declines, and they are miserable and difficult. He rushed left and right, trying to find a way to relieve his pain. He hesitated to address an heir who made him feel threatened to improve his situation, and Jin Ling'er urged and tempted him to do so. But he is not ignorant of the truth in his heart, even without Chen Youcong, he still has to face the pain of aging and illness, and the wound of bleeding and suppuration in his heart and festering more and more.

It was precisely because she had such a judgment that she agreed to Xie Qian's proposal and persuaded Chen Jianjun with the doctrine of destiny.

Chen Jianjun was not immediately moved, but became even more annoyed and angry, which was also expected. Despite this, Zhang Weizhao still has a belief that she believes that the current seemingly exhaustive mountain will eventually turn around.

Her calmness made Xie Qian admire it very much. To be honest, Xie Qian didn't expect her mind to be so mature and stable. Even if it is Xie Qian, in such a situation, it is inevitable to suffer from gains and losses, worries and doubts, but Zhang Weizhao has always been unswerving.

Xie Qian even felt that Zhang Weizhao really had some magical background. Although Confucianism pays attention to the strange power of the child, if it were not for some mysterious powers, many things that happened to Zhang Weizhao would not be explained.

He also tried to set Zhang Weizhao's words, but what made Xie Qian feel very interesting was that in some things, Zhang Weizhao had nothing to talk about with him, and there were no taboos at all, and in some things, no matter how you turned around and probed the wind, she could not reveal it at all, or tell you directly, she was unwilling to answer these questions, and she would not feel uneasy about the master who rejected the prince at all.

Even Xie Qian felt that Zhang Weizhao was supernatural, not to mention the common people. It's almost the end of the year, and everyone used to look forward to spending the old year peacefully and ushering in the new year. This year, however, many people are looking forward to something that will prove that the prophecy of the true people is right.

This is not only because Zhang Weizhao practiced medicine and ran a school earlier, and established a good reputation among the people, but also because, in this eventful autumn, people are eager for miracles to come, and they are longing for another higher being beyond the hustle and bustle of the world, who can see all kinds of sufferings in the world, and intervene when necessary, punish evil and promote good.

In the eyes of many ordinary people, the domineering imperial concubine and the arrogant and lascivious Jin family have become traitors and clowns on the stage, and the prince is as innocent as the prince in "Tanuki for the Prince" and the orphan in "Zhao's Orphan". They expect to see evil retribution for bad people, and good people for good results.

They look forward to seeing the Mandate of Heaven, which they don't know, and their hearts are turned back, and they are themselves part of the Mandate of Heaven.