Zhu Yan waited for me to go to bed, sitting in front of the dresser, and she took off my hair in a bun.

I glanced at Zhu Yan's serious demeanor from the mirror, and thought that she was the aunt in the palace, and she was not young, and she should have been in the palace for some years, so she should know a little about Concubine Li's deeds.

The corners of my mouth slowly hooked up a smile, and I asked her softly, "How many years has my aunt been in the palace?" ”

Zhu Yan looked at my complexion in the mirror, and said with a slight smile, "The slave and maid are almost incomprehensible, the slave and maid entered the palace at the age of eight or nine, and the emperor that year was still Emperor Gaozong Taiwu, the grandfather of the emperor today." ”

I smiled faintly, "My aunt is really a senior in the palace, and she has served the masters of the three dynasties." ”

Zhu Yan sighed, "Yes, the slave is also old." ”

I asked suspiciously, "Then why doesn't my aunt leave the palace when she can leave the palace, and why does she stay in the palace all the time?" ”

Zhu Yan was stunned, she lowered her eyes and thought for a moment before chuckling again, "The slave maid will not be anything if she leaves the palace, the slave maid is used to staying in the palace, and she would rather die in the palace of old age." ”

I looked back at her, "What about my aunt's family?" ”

Zhu Yan's eyes flashed, and then he chuckled, "The slave maid migrated with her family when she was very young and lived in Pingshu County. When the slave maid was fourteen years old, her parents unfortunately died, and the slave maid had no family, so—" Zhu Yan sighed, "The slave and maid are willing to serve their master in the palace, because the slave and maid are used to life in the palace." ”

I turned to look at her, and she stood in front of me with her hands down and her eyes downcast.

Although she looked a little melancholy at this time, she couldn't see sadness.

I looked at her indifferently and said faintly, "The emperor's biological mother is Li Yunyu and Concubine Li?" ”

Zhu Yan listened and nodded slightly, "Yes." ”

"This palace wants to hear about Concubine Li, can you tell me?"

Zhu Yan's brows deepened a little, I seemed to feel that she didn't want to think of Concubine Li, seeing me staring at her, she pursed her lower lip lightly, and said, "When the slave maid was fourteen years old, the slave's parents died, and Emperor Gaozong Taiwu also died that year, the first emperor Xianwen Emperor succeeded to the throne, the first emperor was only twelve years old, the queen mother let the slave maid serve by the side of the first emperor, two years later, when the first emperor was fourteen years old, he brought back a woman from outside and named a concubine, and that woman was Concubine Li." Concubine Li was the emperor's favorite concubine back then, but Concubine Li had a thin life, and after giving birth to the current emperor, she was given death by the queen mother. ”

Zhu Yan said that Concubine Li's face was a little ugly, it seems that the relationship between her and Concubine Li should be very good.

"Why did the Queen Mother give Concubine Li to death?" I was a little confused, and wondered.

Zhu Yan hurriedly glanced at the door curtain, as if she was afraid of letting others hear, her eyes turned to me again, seeing that I was waiting for her answer, she lowered her head and continued, "It is difficult for nobles to know, the royal court has an ancestral convention, the ancestral rule of 'the son and the mother die', the emperor's eldest son must be the crown prince, but the royal family does not allow relatives to dictate power, so Concubine Li was given to death by the queen mother under the rule of the ancestors." ”

I was dumbfounded, and then I suddenly understood.

My eyes sank, thinking of Lin Jinse, her look of no hope for the future.

She must have known that she might go down that path too.

What is she like with the feeling of the eldest son of the emperor?

I was desolate.

The corners of my mouth twitched.

No wonder, the queen doesn't take her seriously, even if she is pregnant with the prince, she is not welcomed, and even the queen mother doesn't pay much attention to her.

I pondered for a while before looking at Zhu Yan again and said, "Then Concubine Li, what else do you know, such as Concubine Li and Yihun Mansion?" ”

Hearing my words, Zhu Yan's brows furrowed again, she pursed the corners of her mouth, and said after a while, "The former Prime Minister Yi Hun let the Empress Dowager punish him a year after the death of Emperor Gaozong Taiwu, and Concubine Li had not yet entered the palace, Concubine Li only entered the palace two years after the death of Emperor Taiwu, and the slave maid thought that Concubine Li might not know the people in Prime Minister Yi's mansion." ”

Is Li Yunyu and Yifu really not implicated?

My eyes darkened, and I was very puzzled.

Even if Concubine Li doesn't know Yi Hun, but what about Yi Hun ? But he didn't die when he was executed in Yifu.

Zhu Yan was very puzzled by my question at this time, her face was full of doubt, I knew that she was guessing my intentions, but she didn't dare to ask, and I didn't want to tell me.

I treated her seriously, "What this palace says is not allowed to talk to others. ”

Zhu Yan was busy with his side, "The slave understands, and the nobles can rest assured." ”

At this time, suddenly I heard the sound of drums in the distance.

I looked out the window at the dark night, the drum was coming from the White Building in the South City, and the drum beating at this moment should be closing the city gate.

As soon as the city gate is closed, the streets of Pingcheng must be deserted, but the Yingyue Tower in the city is still singing and dancing at this time.

The King of the North Sea sat alone in the wing room and drank.

The loose tables in the lobby downstairs are also mostly for some guests who listen to music.

Nangong Ni deliberately dressed up, looked at the pot of wine on the table, pursed her lips and smiled, picked it up with the tray, and went out to the other end of the corridor.

She stopped in front of the elegant room called "Youlan", and the two guards guarding the door hurriedly stopped her, although they stopped her, but the guards were very respectful.

One of them said, "Your Highness doesn't let people disturb, Miss Nangong, please come back." ”

Nangong Ni smiled charmingly, "Ni just sent a pot of wine to His Royal Highness the King of Beihai, and he won't bother." ”

The guard was very serious, and there was still no expression on his face, "Your Highness said, I won't see anyone today, including you Nangong girl." ”

Nangong Ni sneered in her heart, a little impatient, but she still calmed down and smiled, "Okay, Ni won't go in and bother, but this pot of plum wine was given to His Highness by Ni to taste, and I hope Your Excellency will give it to His Highness to taste on your behalf." ”

The guard hesitated, but still reached out to catch the tray in Nangong Ni's hand, and bowed politely, "Thank you, Miss Nangong." ”

Nangong Ni smiled lightly, "You must return to Your Highness, this is Ni's exclusive secret recipe, and it is so delicious." ”

Nangong Ni returned to her room, her face darkened with the smile just now, and she always remembered the order that Hou Ye had given her, that she must be recommended to the Sect Division in the palace by the King of Beihai.

She accepted her fate, as long as he gave her orders, no matter how difficult it was, she would complete them.

Even if the task was for his other women, she was willing to obey.

Nangong Ni thought that back then, her master Xu Shaoling left in a hurry just to complete the task he assigned, but after leaving that night, what she was waiting for was the news that the master had died.

That year, Hou Ye was still an auxiliary general of the Liu Song Dynasty, and for the sake of the great cause, for the glory of the Xiao clan, and in order to obey the orders of his uncle Xiao Daocheng, he had to complete his mission.

And this mission is to secretly cross to the Northern Wei Dynasty.

Xu Shaoling became a pawn in this mission, Nangong Ni didn't know it back then, and after Xu Shaoling's death, Hou Ye informed her.

Since the master is Hou Ye's person, he is dedicated to Hou Ye, and she is also willing to be Hou Ye's person. On the night she learned of her master's death, she knelt in front of the Hou Ye and asked to be his confidant and only loyal to him.

Nangong Ni will always remember that day, Hou Ye held her in his arms and comforted her.

It was the only time she had such intimate contact with Hou Ye, she smelled his breath, listened to the heartbeat in his chest, and from that moment on, she swore that even if she died, she would be loyal to him, and if she died, she would get his love.

But after all these years, he is still the same as he was at the beginning, neither hot nor cold. In addition to giving her tasks, he always kept her far away.

She was very lonely and unwilling.

The woman in Hou Ye's heart is long gone, Xu Shaoling, who likes him, has also passed away, and the only one by his side is her, but he still can't see her.

She thought that as long as she was by his side for a long time, she would be good to him, and he would definitely see it, and sooner or later he would accept her. But she never imagined that now there was such a woman who was exactly the same as Yihua.

Nangong Ni remembered that day that Hou Ye invited You Ran of Qingfeng Gate to Youyuzhuang, and confessed to You Ran that he was Cui Boyuan's disciple and a former friend of Yi Huan, and asked him to tell him about Yi Huan's deeds in Qingfeng Gate.

You Ran told you about the general situation of the years when Yi Huan was in Qingfeng Gate. In the end, he directly told Hou Ye how the immortal Dao Cui Boyuan explained how he placed the jade screen that collected the soul of Yihua.

Nangong Ni secretly listened to it on the side, and at that time she felt that the words in You Ran's mouth were too incredible.

Now that she clearly understands that the woman's body has the soul of the woman Hou Ye loves the most, then Hou Ye will not give up on her.

At the birthday banquet of the Rencheng Palace, she thought that the Hou Ye only treated the woman as a pawn, otherwise, how could he poison her, so that the Rencheng King and the emperor would have a dislike.

But I slowly discovered that Hou Ye's heart was not like this, because of that woman, Hou Ye had slowed down again and again.

She didn't know what Hou Ye's heart was thinking, and what his purpose was.

Nangong Ni approached the windowsill and looked at the bright moon in the sky, where was the Hou Ye at this time?

And the man she was thinking of was wearing a black suit and a black scarf at this time, floating into the Dongyang Palace.

King Dongyang, as the imperial lieutenant, holds the military power, and the empress dowager is the leader in the court.

Xiao Jingqi infiltrated the Dongyang Mansion in order to find someone.

From Ju Yang's mouth and You Ran's mouth, he believed that after Cui Boyuan saved Yi Huan, although he was seriously injured, he must not have died.

One of the purposes for him to come from Qi this time was to find Cui Boyuan.

He had already found out that after the Empress Dowager Feng was assassinated in Li Yi's cemetery, she sent a large number of troops to find Cui Boyuan, and the leader of them was the King of Dongyang.

Xiao Jingqi felt that King Dongyang must have secretly arrested Cui Boyuan without reporting it, and he must have locked Cui Boyuan somewhere.

The only place he thought of that could lock Cui Boyuan up without being exposed to the wind was the Dongyang Palace.

In the palace of Dongyang, the garden is wide, the courtyard pattern is huge, there are too many soldiers in the palace, it is not easy to find people in the palace, it is easy to expose the stuffing, and it is dangerous.

He had no choice but to go it alone, not planning to gain anything tonight, just to explore the terrain of Fuchu.

Under the dark night, he squinted at the bewitching phoenix eyes, hid behind a tree, and watched the direction of the soldiers in the palace.

Sneak past the body and head towards the main courtyard.

A young girl walked in the corridor, smiling, holding a tray with a bowl of ginseng soup in her hand.

Xiao Jingqi hid in the dark night, quietly watching the girl knock on a door.

The door opened from the inside, and a slave who came out saw the girl and hurriedly saluted, "County lord, you are still here to bring ginseng soup to the master so late." ”

The woman smiled lightly, "Isn't my father still busy?" ”

Xiao Jingqi was stunned for a moment, and then realized that he had arrived at King Dongyang's study.

At this time, a loud shout suddenly came from behind him, "Who is it!" ”