Gongsun knew that it would be no good for anyone to continue this conversation. found an excuse and left with Qin Ruse. As soon as the two went out, they heard the sound of broken dishes from the palace of the concubine.

The two walked slowly in the laneway of the palace, silently agreeing with each other. As far as Gongsun Jin is concerned, no matter what, the concubine is an existence that cannot be erased when he was young, although he no longer has any thoughts of going beyond the norm, and wants to start a new life with his princess. But undeniably, he needed time to sort it out.

As for Qin Ruse, what she did today was just swearing sovereignty in front of the concubine. She knew that the concubine was just a person who couldn't let go, and what she did was to let the concubine not be delusional. But she didn't want Gongsun Jin to remove the concubine from her memory. She looked at Gongsun Jing's back, and the words that flowed in her heart were just that: I have not participated in your past, so I thank that person for accompanying you, but your present, your future, since I am here, I don't want anyone to replace my existence.

Walking to the gate of the palace, Qin Ruse suddenly stopped and said to Gongsun Jin: "Your Majesty, go back quickly." ”

"Aren't you with this king?" Gongsun Jin didn't seem to have sorted himself out yet, and his tone was much weaker.

"Nope. The emperor also asked me to play chess with him tonight. Go back! ”

"Today's thing."

"I have no right to interfere with your past," Qin Ruse smiled and stretched out her hand, hugged Gongsun Jin, and said seriously in his ear: "But from the day I became the princess of Zhenbei, the rest of your life will be under my control." ”

This sentence is like a poison that penetrates deep into the bones and blood, and instantly makes Gongsun Jin have mixed feelings. He always knew that his princess was very sensible, but she was so sensible, so sensible that it made people feel distressed. Gongsun Jin buried his head in Qin Ruse's neck, sucking in the fragrance that belonged to his own princess. In the end, he hugged Qin Ruse with all his might.

In the evening, the emperor set up a chess game in the Shang study. When the moonlight was thick, Qin Ruse came to the emperor with snacks from the palace in the north of the town.

"The courtier, Qin Ruse, see Your Majesty."

"Hurry up, please get up, Xiao Dezi look at the tea." Although the emperor was pleased with the concubine, he had no choice but that the concubine's mind was not on him. Every time we meet, it ends with a heavy and helpless end. In the imperial court, it is really rare to have such a bold personality as Princess Zhenbei.

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Qin Ruse got up, handed the gift in his hand to the eunuch in charge of the affairs, and said, "This is what I brought from the Zhenbei Palace, Your Majesty will taste it." ”

"The craftsmanship of the master of Zhenbei Wangfu is famous all over the world, and I will definitely try it tomorrow." The emperor said and walked towards the inner room.

Qin Ruse followed behind, looking like a little daughter-in-law, well-behaved and tight. No matter how you say that the person in front of you is the emperor, the truth that the king is like a tiger is still clear in her heart.

After the emperor sat down, when he turned around and saw Qin Ru's timid appearance, he smiled: "Today, you and I are the two of us, don't be restrained." ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Qin Ruse breathed a sigh of relief and looked at the game of chess that had been laid out on the table. After watching it for a long time, Qin Ruse looked at His Majesty with a wry smile and said, "Your Majesty, your chess skills are among the best in the Great Zhou, you called me over today, won't you show me the chess game that you can't solve." ”

"Bold, is Your Majesty that kind of person?" The emperor pretended to be angry, and suddenly frightened the little eunuchs in Shangshufang. However, sitting and looking to the right, the emperor didn't see the princess of Zhenbei in front of him showing a little timidity on her face, so he asked, "You are not afraid of me!" ”

Qin Ruse reacted at this time, and replied naturally: "If I don't compliment Your Majesty, you will blame me." Then I'm afraid I have to wonder if Your Majesty has fallen into some evil magic, otherwise how could my Great Zhou Mingjun do such a foolish thing? When the emperor heard this, he was stunned for a moment, and then burst out laughing. Finally, he looked at Qin Ruse with serious eyes: "I am afraid that you are the only one in the world who dares to say this." ”

Qin Ruse smiled without raising her head, and continued to concentrate on studying the chess game. It was as if in her world, today's business was just the game of chess in front of her.

If the situation is clearly revealed today, who is the implicit meaning of this game of chess that the emperor showed himself today? There are very few simple games in the Emperor's House, and everything will always have some deep meaning.

I don't know when, the emperor called the court musician to play the piano on the side, playing "Ambush on All Sides". As the music staggered, the idea of solving chess was also restless.

I didn't know how many good ambergris incense were burned, Qin Ruse wiped the sweat on her head and landed the last sunspot on the chessboard.

"Your Majesty." Qin Ruse glanced at the few little eunuchs behind the emperor.

The emperor understood and dismissed his retinue. Then he asked: "My endgame, Princess Zhenbei can be solved?" ”

"Your Majesty, you have something to explain to me."

Emperors have always liked wise and loyal ministers, "Why did the princess ask that?" ”

"Your Majesty is a game of chess, the sunspots are embattled, the courtiers solve the chess, and Your Majesty is ordered to play an ambush on all sides. If Your Majesty had shown me that it had not been for the current situation, the courtiers would have no choice but to accept the guilt. ”

"Oh, is it? I don't know what Aiqing's crime is? ”

Qin Ruse pointed to the chess game and said, "As the courtiers said, it is not what Your Majesty wants to inform. Not to mention the emperor's situation, his crime should be punished. ”

After hearing this, the emperor showed a deep smile, looked at the bracelet on Qin Ruse's wrist and said, "The queen mother told you everything about your mother." ”

"Yes!"

"If it wasn't for your mother back then, there would be no queen mother and me." The Emperor was mired in memories, and he looked into the distance. "I think there are some things that Ah Jin must have told you. I have been nine years, and none of the harems have come out. Now the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military power and traitors are all eyeing each other, and they are just looking for an opportunity, an opportunity to force me to abdicate. ”

Qin Ruse couldn't figure out what the emperor was going to say for a while, so she could only play a roundabout tactic: "Your Majesty doesn't have to worry, the courtiers and the king will do their best to protect Your Majesty." ”

"Thoughtful?" The emperor smiled weirdly, and his incomprehensible eyes suddenly condensed in his pupils: "Now that the king of Zhenbei is a master of high merit, he has long been above the status of ten thousand people under the Great Zhou people. Do you think he'll be willing to be subservient? ”

Qin Ruse immediately replied: "No, the king once said that His Majesty gave him the title of Zhenbei, and he will guard the thousands of miles of rivers and mountains of this Great Zhou for your life." Although the throne is good, he has never coveted it. ”

For the emperor, compared to his younger brother Gongsun Yu, who has an eccentric temperament, he knows the temperament of Sun Jin, the prince of Zhenbei. A person who is going to the extreme, even if one day the people point to him, he will not turn his back on himself. However, for an emperor, it is better to kill a hundred by mistake than to let one. If you make a mistake, it is likely to be a thousand bones of resentment. So he had to be careful in everything.

"Then how can you guarantee that you will have a yellow robe one day,"

Speaking of this, Qin Ruse interrupted the emperor's words: "Your Majesty, don't use suspicious people, don't doubt people." Thou hast called thy servant alone this day, but thou hast used me to restrain the king. ”

Qin Ruse was so straightforward, but the emperor was far from expecting it. He was stunned for a moment, then sneered. Qin Ruse looked at this smile, and for the first time felt the cruelty and viciousness of the imperial family.

Soon, a little eunuch walked in with a lacquered wooden box, and inside the box was a black pill.

"This is Miao Jiang's Gu poison, I give you two choices."

Qin Ruse's eyes dimmed for a moment, and she whispered: "If I don't eat it, I'm afraid the king and I can't do without this Chang'ancheng." Qin Ruse smiled bitterly and reached out to eat the pill. She's always been smart, heart-wrenchingly smart.

The moment the pill entered his throat, a sly smile flashed across the emperor's face.

"I like to talk to smart people."