The Crane Feather Hall is a remote palace in the northwest of the Taiji Palace, in the past, it was only used to place the low-level concubines who had fallen out of favor, the first emperor's harem was empty for many years, this palace has been completely abandoned, and the palace people even repaired it were so-so and perfunctory, and now it seems to be a dilapidated color.

It's just that this palace, which has been abandoned for a long time, suddenly became lively, the hall was full of noise, and there were soldiers guarding the palace, and the cries and pleading kept coming out.

Locked up in the palace for a day and a night, the princesses and ladies who were frightened, hungry and tired, tensed their nerves, and did not dare to relax at all, and the slightest sound outside the hall made them like frightened quails, suddenly frightened and shrunk into a ball, and the frightened appearance had long since lost the dignified and noble appearance of the past.

Gu Mingyu sat in the corner of the hall, but her face was calm, she didn't have the slightest hint of fear, she glanced lightly at the soldier holding a long knife outside the hall, and slowly closed her eyes, ignoring the chaos around her, and was not affected.

The prince's face is full of sadness, they are no better than women and children, how can they not cry, they have to put on a calm appearance with their spirits, but they all understand in their hearts, I am afraid that there is already a big chaos in the palace.

In fact, whether it is King Xian or King Xian ascending the throne, there is not much difference between the clan, they are always Li Tang's relatives, and they are the blood relatives of the saints, but they know that the current situation is unusual, they have witnessed the rebellion of King Xian, and they can't say if they can spare their lives.

They are also afraid.

Seeing that the sky was gradually brightening, and the soft morning light fell to the ground through the dilapidated hall window, the atmosphere in the hall was becoming more and more tense, and the weeping ladies panicked and ordered the maids to inquire about the news from the soldiers guarding the door, lest the next moment they would come in to ask for their lives.

But there was a commotion outside the hall, and the chaotic footsteps and shouts frightened them into silence, and they stared in fear at the closed door of the temple.

It was a long time, after their hearts were in their throats, and the door was pushed open.

Gu Mingzhu came in with the guards and palace maids, and her eyes swept coldly over the people present: "The Queen Mother invites you to go to the Taiji Palace." ”

At that moment, the hearts of everyone in the hall suddenly relaxed, the princes and clans sat on the couch, celebrating each other in ecstasy and escaping the catastrophe, the princesses and ladies were happy and weeping, and chanted the Buddha: "It's all the Bodhisattva bless, the Bodhisattva bless!" ”

They hurriedly came up to thank Gu Mingzhu again, and asked the queen with a worried face: "Is Niang Niang okay now?" What happened in the palace? Teach us to worry for a long time. ”

Gu Mingzhu exchanged a few words with them, and asked the palace maid to take them out of the palace and come to Gu Mingyu by herself.

"Big sister......" Gu Mingyu got up, lowered her head slightly, and didn't dare to look at Gu Mingzhu, her eyes were full of shame.

When Gu Mingzhu married Boling, she promised that she would take care of the Gu family and serve the Queen Mother, but now it has become this situation, she really has no face to see Gu Mingzhu, and when she found out that Li Mi wanted to seize the power of the Queen Mother's prison, she hesitated and did not let anyone send a letter to Gu Mingzhu after all, she thought that it was just a clear and secret struggle between the court and the court, and it would not affect others.

Can ...... now

She was ashamed and didn't know what to say.

Gu Mingzhu saw her emaciated appearance, and knew that she must have been tortured in her heart these days, so she couldn't help but sigh softly, and pulled her out of the hall: "Let's go, let's go see the concubine of King Xian." ”

Gu Mingyu was stunned for a moment, and quickly came back to his senses, isn't the concubine of King Xian Gu Mingyue.

Zhou Chuchu has already complained of illness, so he asked the eldest princess's mansion to help ask for the grace of the queen mother, and went to Beizhuang to recuperate, and now the only person in Chang'an City who can still be called the concubine of the virtuous king is Gu Mingyue, who has not bowed and has not been listed in the clan list.

Different from the tense atmosphere in front of other palaces, the Qianyun Hall was deadly silent, even the palace maids were nowhere to be seen, and the eunuchs guarding the door did not know where they went.

Gu Mingzhu and Gu Mingyu took the female palace maid to the palace gate, and saw only the half-closed and half-open palace door, which was dark inside, lonely and silent, and no one responded to the palace gate that the palace maid had patted for a long time.

Gu Mingzhu frowned and looked at the palace door, and instructed the female official: "Go in and take a look, see if the concubine of King Xian is there." ”

The female official took the palace maid to push open the door of the palace and walked into the dim hall.

Just a moment later, I heard a scream in the hall, and the female official's face turned blue and the panicked palace maid rushed out, unable to speak: "The county lord, the princess, the side concubine...... She ......"

Gu Mingzhu and Gu Mingyu were both startled, looking at the deep and invisible.

Gu Mingyue died, quietly in the Thousand Clouds Palace, she was locked up in the palace and starved to death.

The eunuch was busy collecting Gu Mingyue's corpse in the hall, and Gu Mingyu outside the hall couldn't stop crying, and clenched the handkerchief in his hand: "It's my negligence, I heard the palace maid say that the virtuous king is not good to the second sister, and sometimes he will do it, but I sent someone to ask, and the second sister was silent and refused to say half a sentence to me." ”

“…… Later, there was chaos in the palace, and the Queen Mother and I were locked up in the Jiashou Palace, and I didn't know the news outside, I always thought that she was the concubine of King Xian, and King Xian would not be too ......."

But she didn't expect that King Xian actually let Gu Mingyue be locked up in the Thousand Cloud Hall and ignored it, and in the chaos, the palace maid and the eunuch were afraid that they had already fled, and Gu Mingyue, who was under house arrest in the inner hall, died in agony.

Gu Mingzhu was silent for a long time, and sighed softly: "Let's go, it's time to go to the Taiji Palace." ”

It's not that she is hard-hearted, she really doesn't have much compassion for Gu Mingyue, whether it is in the past life or in this life, there is no sisterhood between her and Gu Mingyue, Gu Mingyue is gone like this now, maybe it can be regarded as the end of the grievances between them.

Gu Mingyu also knew that now was not the time to be sad, the palace was in turmoil, and the Queen Mother was afraid that there were still a lot of things to explain, and she couldn't help anything here, so she nodded and wiped her tears and followed Gu Mingzhu out of the Qianyun Palace, and took the palace maid to the Taiji Palace.

At this time, the Taiji Hall was solemn, the Queen Mother sat on the upper seat, coldly swept over the people who worshipped in the hall, and there was no trace of temperature in her tone: "What do the ministers of the clan say?" ”

The ministers of the clan had just recovered from the horror of the palace change, and they were so shocked by the queen mother's words that they couldn't speak, and after looking at each other, someone finally had the courage to open their mouths.

King Fu, who is highly respected in the clan, cleared his throat: "King Xian committed a rebellion and intended to rebel, naturally it is a crime that cannot be forgiven, but His Royal Highness King Xian was deceived by others after all, not intentionally disobedient to the Queen Mother, and asked the Queen Mother to ......"

As soon as he finished speaking, there were many ministers of the clan who echoed him, but only the Cui family and several ministers who had always followed the queen mother's side did not speak.

The Queen Mother's eyes fell on King Fu, and suddenly showed a smile: "Then what do you think?" ”

King Fu suddenly felt the pressure in his gaze, and couldn't help lowering his head, just thinking about the meaning of the clans, he had to bite the bullet and speak: "The ministers ask the Queen Mother to pardon His Royal Highness King Xian, or set up another emperor's heir." ”

Although the saint has been bedridden for a long time, he has not yet died, he has no children under his knees, if he establishes another imperial heir from the clan, he can also protect the orthodoxy of the royal family of Li Tang and the world.

This is also the meaning of most of the clan ministers, although they are subservient to the majestic ability of the Queen Mother, they have always maintained the Li Tang royal family from the bones.

The Queen Mother looked at them, and even more raised her head and laughed, there was no fear and contempt in her laughter, watching the faces of everyone in the hall change from doubts to uneasiness, she suddenly stopped smiling, and said lightly: "It seems that the matter of Xuanwumen is only more than ten years ago. ”

The clans suddenly changed color, trembling and looking at the noble and cold face of the Queen Mother, no one dared to say a word more, they all shuddered and remembered more than ten years ago, Emperor Taizong's blood-stained Xuanwu Gate, but one day, the clan was washed and cleaned up in blood, leaving only a few, and the others were disposed of along with the abolished prince.

Now that the Queen Mother mentioned the matter of Xuanwumen, she was also warning the clan that if she dared to have his heart again, she would not mind bloodbathing the clan again.

No one would doubt that she would really do it.