The harem is mysterious and may be difficult for ordinary people to reach. No matter how outsiders think about it, it has never lifted the veil of mystery.

King Yan walked in this harem, he grew up here, but when he became an adult, he set up a government outside the imperial city and never came to this harem again.

In the inner courtyard of the deep palace, there are often people resting, everything here is like this country, people walk like flowing water, but it has always remained the same. King Yan looked around, and he still had some impressions of some places, but when he saw it again, he still felt novel.

Since ancient times, the ruthless emperor family, although he and the empress are mother and son, but the relationship between the two is still more sincere to say that it is the emperor and the minister.

Since the establishment of the royal palace outside the imperial city, he was not even allowed to enter the palace to ask for peace. As the ruler of the empire, the empress seems to be always busy, he can only call his mother by His Majesty, and he even sees the most in the court all year round.

Raising Gu and choosing a concubine, the empress's approach is obvious, and it can be seen very clearly inside and outside the court, and he also knows it.

With a slight sigh in his heart, King Yan quietly asked, "Your Majesty called me here, what is the matter?" ”

Walking in front of King Yan is Wang Zhong, the chief eunuch of the inner palace, who has a very high status in the inner palace, and he also watched King Yan grow up at the beginning, so the two are still familiar with each other.

Wang Zhong turned his head and said with a smile: "Your Majesty is worried that the prince has not come to the harem for a long time, don't go the wrong way, so let the servants bring you over." As for why he is called the prince, the slave doesn't know. ”

Don't want to say it......

King Yan closed his mouth in amusement.

In fact, he was called to the palace and stayed in the Wanchun Hall for the first time. Although he has melons and fruits to serve, he always feels uneasy in his heart. wanted to go out to inquire, but as a result, the entire Wanchun Hall was controlled by the armored Yulin Guard. Those Yu Linwei had indifferent faces, even the prince didn't give any face. In a word, without His Majesty's will, you must stay here.

After a full hour, Wang Zhong came over with His Majesty's message and led King Yan into the inner palace.

Along the way, King Yan obviously felt that the number of guards in the inner palace had increased.

The Northern Ya Forbidden Army, in addition to the Yulin Army, also has the three armies of Shence, Shenwu, and Longwu, all of which are the pro-army of the Son of Heaven and are directly under the control of the emperor.

These people usually don't show their faces easily, they are like hidden killing weapons, secretly guarding the emperor's safety.

Those dark black gilt armor, glowing with cold light in the sunlight, stood on both sides of the road, murderous and dignified.

Wang Zhong didn't go any further, and a temple hidden in the bamboo forest in the distance was where the empress was.

This place is very familiar to King Yan.

This is the Wangchi Palace, behind the main hall is the Longchi Lake in the palace, the lake is planted with green bamboo, very quiet. When the empress was still the former queen of Qin, she lived in this palace. King Yan and King Liang also grew up in this hall.

The empress gave birth to three sons, the eldest brother was the prince of Xianqin, and the result was ...... But he died in battle with his father.

The scene at that time is still vivid, the empress's heroic posture seems to be reappeared, the cloud temples are raised, the battle armor is draped, and the long sword is held and the army is killed out of the imperial city.

Now the forbidden troops on both sides are standing straight like a forest of swords.

King Yan tidied up his appearance and stepped into the main hall.

Wangchi Palace, Luo tent green yarn, carved block painting phoenix, a screen stands in the middle of the Wangchi Palace, the empress lies lazily in the middle of the screen, the north side is leaning on the backrest, wearing an ordinary plain robe.

"Your Majesty!" King Yan clenched his fists and bowed.

After a long time, he heard the Empress stand up and walk up to him.

King Yan stiffened, he raised his head boldly, and the empress suddenly slapped him in the face.

Syllable!

King Yan covered his flushed face, looked at the empress in disbelief, and when he saw the empress's phoenix eyes, he quickly lowered his head.

King Yan's heart was very confused.

Very chaotic, angry, aggrieved, incomprehensible, all haunting my heart at this time.

We can ignore the ridicule and repression from the outside, hide our anger in our hearts, and wait until the day when we get revenge. But for the punishment of parents, there will always be loneliness in the heart.

"Look at the good things you've done! Do you think you're going to be invulnerable? Okay, after growing up, he can still mobilize the demon dragon and swallow all the tax money in Guangdong. Why don't you just instruct the demon dragon to go to the inner palace and kill me, and you will be the emperor! ”

The empress suddenly erupted in thunderous rage, and the entire Wangchi Hall was an echo of him.

King Yan trembled, he was like a boat in a storm in the empress's anger, and even when he opened his mouth, he didn't know what to say.

Bang dang!

A silver ingot fell in front of King Yan, King Yan picked it up, the silver ingot itself is nothing outstanding, it was engraved with the words "the first year of Shengong in Lushui County", but King Yan was at the bottom, and saw the words of Guangdong tax silver.

King Yan raised his head and saw the empress's angry face, and he muttered, "Your Majesty, has the tax money been recovered?" ”

"Only one box was recovered, and it was found from your house."

King Yan was stunned for a moment, then his pupils suddenly shrank, he looked at the empress in disbelief, he finally knew why the empress called him out.

Fear spreads to the heart.

"It's not me! Mother, I didn't do it at all! I didn't do anything, I ...... Someone must have framed me, it must be! In a hurry, King Yan was already speechless, and he began to defend frantically.

Boom!

King Yan was kicked in the chest by the empress, and he immediately flew to the ground. The empress has practiced martial arts, and even at the beginning, she was a role in the army as if she had entered a no-man's land, and the women did not let her eyebrows go.

The corner of Yan Wang's mouth was bleeding, and he coughed violently a few times, and the empress walked up to him, grabbed him by the collar, lifted him up, and wiped the blood from the corner of Yan Wang's mouth with a handkerchief.

"Does it hurt?" The Empress's tone suddenly became soft.

King Yan almost cried.

He was like a child who had made a mistake, lying in his mother's arms.

King Yan shook his head and said, "Erchen doesn't hurt. ”

"This is a lesson for you, who has obtained such a huge amount of money, I am afraid that he would have fled a long time ago, who will be a cook in your house? Such a clumsy method makes it impossible to find fault with it. That cook committed suicide, and you don't even have room to overturn the case. The war in the Northern Wilderness is urgent, and Jiangnan Province is affected again. With the treasury tight, I also need someone to take on all the blame. ”

The empress said calmly, but King Yan's eyes widened wider and wider.

"Sooner or later, this matter will be known by the world, and the silver taels came out of your house, even if you don't admit it, the physical evidence is there, and you can't afford not to admit it."

The empress stood up: "I gave them three days, and when the three days are up, if they don't bear fruit, you will ...... Confess your guilt. ”

The Empress walked straight out.

In the main hall, there was silence.

King Yan was stunned in place, looking at the back of the empress in the distance, and suddenly a sadness filled his heart.

"I'm still not your son!" King Yan shouted in his heart, and he angrily wanted to push the door, but the door was locked from the outside and could not be pushed open at all.