Chapter 404 - War Crisis
"That's it, the palace will personally go to thank the Queen Mother." Chu Luoyi spoke slowly.
The eunuch's heart froze, and he hurriedly kowtowed violently and said, "Please also ask the queen to spare her life, and please ask the queen to spare her life..."
Chu Luoyi frowned slightly, and Xiao Liuzi stepped forward and kicked him: "You slave, what the hell is going on!" ”
The eunuch hurriedly spoke: "These words are what the slave himself wants to say, and please don't blame the queen mother on the queen mother's head, now Her Royal Highness doesn't recognize her as a mother, and the queen mother is miserable, so the slave said a few more words for a while, and I hope that the mother will not go to the queen mother." ”
Chu Luoyi knew in his heart, he must be the jackal beast in the heart of this eunuch, but he was afraid that this would make the relationship between Mu Qing and Bei Liuyun worse.
Xiao Liuzi was angry in his heart and wanted to let people drag the eunuch down.
"That's it, this palace is just to see the Queen Mother, what are you worried about?" Chu Luoyi said softly.
The eunuch didn't know how to answer for a while, Chu Luoyi didn't delay, and took Xiao Liuzi and two palace maids to jump directly over the minions on the ground, and walked to the palace where Mu Qing is now.
When Chu Luoyi stopped in front of the door, a maidservant girl hurriedly ran in to report.
Then the door opened, and a grandmother greeted her.
Xiao Liuzi helped Chu Luoyi to lift his legs and cross the threshold on the ground, and slowly walked in.
The room has a faint scent of sandalwood, which is calming.
Chu Luoyi looked up and looked around, only to feel that the decoration in the room seemed to be simpler, a jade Buddha was placed on a table, some melons and fruits were placed in front of him, and there was a futon on the ground.
There was a desk inside, with a lot of books and drawings on it, Chu Luoyi glanced at it, it seemed to be related to farming, and he was slightly surprised.
Turning her head, Mu Qing was sitting on the collapse, looking at her quietly.
"See the Queen Mother." Chu Luoyi bowed slightly.
Mu Qing looked at Chu Luoyi with a complicated expression for a while, and his heart was sour, and finally said, "Come and sit." ”
Chu Luoyi also sat on the collapse.
Between the two of them is a square table with a lot of pastries and fruits.
Chu Luoyi glanced at it and could see that these were newly prepared.
Presumably after he left with Xiao Liuzi, the eunuch heard the news and hurriedly ran back to report to Mu Qing.
"It's very dangerous to go to Nanzhao, but fortunately you can return safely." Mu Qing spoke softly, but she was still apprehensive in her heart.
After all, she had a-for-tat confrontation with Chu Luoyi, and even poisoned her several times, wanting to kill her.
Just ask her to treat her like this, how can she let go so easily?
"Let the queen mother be worried." Chu Luoyi smiled lightly.
Mu Qing was stunned for a moment, her eyes flashed with excitement, and she couldn't believe it, she just called her mother?
Chu Luoyi continued: "The queen mother seems to have lost a lot of weight than before, and she still has to take good care of her body, and in the future, when my majesty's child and I are born, I will call the queen mother a grandmother." ”
A string of tears slipped into Mu Qing's eyes, her lips trembled slightly, she couldn't speak for a while, grabbed Chu Luoyi's hand, and refused to let go.
Chu Luoyi patted her hand to soothe her.
In fact, as early as the moment she knew that Mu Qing was Beiliuyun's biological mother, she was relieved of Mu Qing.
Although there is no guarantee that she will be called the queen mother, at least I still hope that she can rebuild the old friendship with Beiliuyun, and after coming here today, she can conclude her mind after just a few casual glances, for such a poor woman, she really can't hate it.
Mu Qing is pitiful, when she was young, she loved the handsome and dashing emperor, but her true heart was repeatedly disappointed, and then she fell in love with Beiliuxue by mistake, but she let Beiliuyun endure humiliation in front of her, and in the end, two of the three children went before her, and for a mother, what kind of regret and pain should it be.
"Well... Okay.." Mu Qing snorted and spoke, and the emotions that had been suppressed for a long time finally collapsed at this moment.
Chu Luoyi smiled at her, curled the corners of his lips and said: "Actually, Your Majesty has always been worried about you in his heart, but he has always been awkward, so he refuses to admit it, don't worry, when the war is calmed down, I will persuade him well." ”
Mu Qing nodded, his eyes were full of relief, and then said softly: "I treated you like that, don't you hate me?" ”
Chu Luoyi shook his head, his eyes were a little distant, and he said: "Once, I hated many people, but later I found that this kind of hatred hurt others and hurt myself too much. ”
Mu Qing didn't quite understand what she was talking about, so she didn't speak.
Chu Luoyi retracted his mind and looked at Mu Qing and said, "Besides, it was I who calculated in every possible way to achieve my goal. ”
Mu Qing was a little dumbfounded for a while, she didn't expect Chu Luoyi to say this, which made most of the haze in her heart dissipate.
"It's naturally good that you don't blame me, it's just that I've done too many bad things in my life, that's why God will punish me like this, let me watch my child suffer humiliation for more than ten years, can't eat, can't dress warmly, and even a slave can bully him..."
For so long, she didn't know who to say these words to.
With the minions around you? They will only whisper comfort...
With his own father and brother? They are all seven-foot men, and they only admonish themselves to be strong and forbearing...
Nowadays, one can say that she is almost irrepressible.
Chu Luoyi got up and sat down beside her, and gently took her hand and put it on his stomach: "There is a new life here, which will be born one day in the future, and every day in the world will also have a new life. So you don't have to regret your past mistakes, because if you look at the future, look at the world, rivers and mountains, and you will find that as long as you want, every day can be a new life. ”
Mu Qing looked at her with teary eyes, is it a new life?
Her psychology is too bitter, too bitter, too bitter, Beiliuye's death, and the princess who has not grown up, have been separated from her by heaven and man, and Beiliuyun, the son she has been ashamed of for twenty years, is stinging her heart all the time.
"Will Yun'er really recognize me as a mother?" Mu Qing looked at Chu Luoyi with expectation in her eyes.
Chu Luoyi nodded and said, "Yes." ”
Mu Qing's face finally showed a smile: "Thank you." ”
Chu Luoyi patiently enlightened her, telling her that Beiliuyun was just ruthless on the outside, but soft on the inside, and told her not to be afraid of rejection, as long as she was willing to do it, it wouldn't take too long.
Seeing that the sky was gradually darkening, Chu Luoyi got up to say goodbye.
Mu Qing wanted to leave her for dinner together, but seeing that her face was already tired, she didn't speak.
"Your body is really bad, you must be well recuperated." Mu Qing instructed.
"Don't worry, so many doctors are circling around me, I'm afraid that my body will be bad."
Chu Luoyi said goodbye with a smile, looking at Mu Qing's eyebrows, she seemed to be a lot more relaxed, and she was also relieved.
Mu Qing stood in front of the door and looked at Chu Luoyi's distant back, and the eunuch who delivered the herbs couldn't help but speak: "This queen lady doesn't look like a bad person. ”
Mu Qing sighed, turned around and said, "I should have understood, how could she be a bad person if she could get Yun'er's desperate love, it's just hateful, it's too difficult to be a good person in this world." ”
Xiao Liuzi helped Chu Luoyi to walk on the unfamiliar palace road and couldn't help but speak: "Master, don't you really blame the Queen Mother?" ”
Chu Luoyi shook his head and said, "What do you blame her?" At the beginning, I was bent on fighting for power, and I designed her several times, and if she wanted to live, she naturally had to fight back. In a place like the Imperial Palace, it is really ordinary to cheat me. ”
Xiao Liuzi nodded and didn't speak again.
didn't go far, Chu Luoyi paused and saw an acquaintance.
Cang Yao, who was dressed in armor, held a sword in his hand, and was dispatching the guards in the palace, as if he was strengthening his defenses.
After seeing Chu Luoyi, he said something to the people beside him, and ran towards Chu Luoyi.
"Queen Mother, the current war is not very optimistic, I don't know if the soldiers defending the city can survive tonight, Your Majesty asked your subordinates to come back and stay with you, just in case." Cang Yao hurriedly spoke.
Chu Luoyi's brows were twisted, could it be said that the current war had been endangered to such a point?
Looking up at the city walls, the faint sound of fighting and war drums was constantly heard.
She remembered that it had only been a few days since Beiyan's army retreated to this city, but she didn't expect to withdraw again.
"Nan Zhao's army is so powerful?" Chu Luoyi said.
Cang Yao nodded: "If the army is alone, we may not be inferior to them, but Ouyang Qiancheng is too bad, and a formation has been laid out more than 100 meters outside the city gate, if our army opens the door to meet the enemy, it will definitely fall into the formation, and it will definitely suffer heavy casualties, if it does not open the door to meet the enemy, then relying only on the city wall, it will be completely unable to resist Nanzhao's large-scale attack." ”
After thinking about it, Chu Luoyi did not return to the dormitory arranged by Beiliuyun for himself, but returned to the imperial study again.
Cang Yao stopped in front of her and said: "Madam, Your Highness asked you not to worry about the war, he said that if the battle situation is not good, I am afraid that you will have to evacuate before dawn, and you will not have time to rest at that time, so Your Highness asked you to rest earlier today." ”
"Master, you just listen to Your Highness, Your Highness is not an ordinary person, and he will not be defeated easily." Xiao Liuzi also persuaded.
At this moment, fireworks suddenly burst into the night sky at the city wall.
Several people looked up one after another, and fireworks of various shapes burst out one after another, transforming into various patterns and colors, which was very beautiful.
Chu Luoyi knew that this must be the set of methods to transmit information brought by Yi Duoduo, looking at the fireworks that were constantly blooming in the sky now, Chu Luoyi's heart was a little calmer, presumably Beiliuyun had already come up with a countermeasure.
"Let's go."
Chu Luoyi spoke softly and walked towards the way back to the palace.
Cang Sickle followed, vigilant of the movement around him.
"You've been around Ouyang Qiancheng for so long, what have you discovered?"
Cang Yao was stunned for a moment, and then said, "There are some discoveries. ”
"Oh?"
"The time for his subordinates to be around him is not short, at the beginning, he didn't notice that his subordinates were not in the Gu, so even if he was wary, it was not too much, so his subordinates still found out about some things, but his subordinates were stupid, I don't know when Ouyang Qiancheng found out that his subordinates were awake, so now he can't tell which news is true and which news is his suspicion." Cang Yao said.
"Tell me about it."
"The subordinates initially found out that Ouyang Qiancheng had been investigating the destruction of his mother's clan back then, and then he had been searching for the imperial doctors who had seen his mother in the palace back then, but these imperial doctors either died of illness or died of unexpectedness, in short, all disappeared. After that, Ouyang Qiancheng seemed to have found a woman, but unfortunately his subordinates could not find out the origin of this woman, and after that, Ouyang Qiancheng sent a group of people to Tianshui very secretly, but what to do, the subordinates did not know. "Cang Kao.
Chu Luoyi frowned, analyzing his words.
What surprised her a little was that Ouyang Qiancheng was also investigating the events of the year, could it be that he also noticed something wrong? Or has he already discovered something?
"Tell me how old the woman is." Chu Luoyi looked at Cang Yao.
"The subordinates only saw it from a distance, the woman was slightly fat, with a hairband, and she was slightly better dressed than ordinary people, but she would not be a member of a large family." Cang Yao recalled.
"Do you remember what it looks like?"
Cang Scythe nodded.
"Are you sure that Ouyang Qiancheng let this person leave that day without killing anyone?"
"I'm not sure, I followed the woman for a long time that day, but then I was stopped by Ouyang Qiancheng's people, and then I went out to look for it, but there was no news."
Who this woman was, if we knew whether she was killed or not, we could at least deduce something, but now we know too little.
Chu Luoyi raised his eyes and said, "If you don't have to evacuate from the city tomorrow, you can go to the city and find a few women who are slightly better dressed than the woman you have seen, and then bring them to me." ”
Cang Yao nodded, guessing that Chu Luoyi wanted to use this to determine what the woman was doing, and the price of Tianshui would be a little more expensive than here, so when looking for it, he had to find a lady who was better dressed.
Chu Luoyi was still bothering to guess.
There are many forces of Ouyang Qiancheng in this Tianshui, but why did Ouyang Qiancheng personally send a team of people.
This can only show that this matter is very important, Ouyang Qiancheng can't trust those people in Beijing, so he can only secretly send a group of people again.
Chu Luoyi has been thinking about it in his heart, but he couldn't think about the result after all.
Seeing that she had returned to her bedroom to rest, Cang Yao did not force her to rest earlier, but ordered people to guard her surroundings carefully.
Chu Luoyi has always been thinking about it, but now because she is pregnant, she is really easy to get tired, and it didn't take long for her to fall asleep.
The night was full of fighting, and the fighting outside the city walls was very tragic.
The fireworks in the night sky are constantly blooming again and again, and they are overwhelming.
Beiliuyun's orders were one after another, and the two soldiers on the side no longer needed the booklet provided by Yiduoduo, and the corresponding patterns of those fireworks had basically been memorized, and as soon as Beiliuyun spoke, he could basically immediately find the corresponding mark in the pile of fireworks.
This night, I saw that Ouyang Qiancheng had a matchless formation.
Beiliuyun was also ruthless, and ordered someone to take out the fireball that he had ordered to prepare when he left not long ago.