Ci'an Palace.

Mama Lin quietly entered the queen mother's dormitory and quietly sent the palace people on duty at night.

She walked lightly to the Empress Dowager's tent and asked in a low voice, "Have you rested at the old man's house?" ”

The Empress Dowager sighed: "What are you resting for?" Where can I sleep in my heart? Zhiyi ordered people to pass in the words without a head, saying that the palace door should be closed tightly, and no one should be allowed to come in, and he didn't say what the reason was. Now that the mourning family has also made a decree, who knows that it was Yuehua who was seriously injured, and Chu Mubai took her into the palace for medical treatment.

Now the emperor can hold a grudge against the mourning family, people have also been killed, and cruel words have been released, if Chu Yuehua can't get out of danger safely today, according to the emperor's temperament, he will lose his mind when the time comes, and he doesn't know what kind of bloody storm he is going to set off? The incident happened suddenly, and the mourning family was worried about how to deal with it. ”

Mama Lin held her breath, didn't dare to persuade, was silent for a moment, bowed her head and said: "Empress Dowager, the second master has entered the palace, and now he is waiting outside." ”

"What?" The Empress Dowager was startled and sat up in the tent: "It's so late, what is he doing in the palace?" is not afraid of arousing the emperor's suspicion. ”

Mama Lin didn't dare to breathe: "I'm afraid something big has happened, otherwise the second master would definitely not take such a risk." ”

The Empress Dowager said angrily: "Let him come in, the mourning family is just about to question him, which one is this singing?" Do you want to kill the mourners? ”

Mama Lin bowed down, turned on the lamp, slowly withdrew from the hall, and all the idle people and others retreated, and looked around vigilantly.

A cloaked shadow silently tumbled down from the ridge of the roof and slid into the dormitory, the door quickly closing outside.

The cloak was taken off, revealing the face of the ever-righteous and gloomy.

"See the Empress Dowager for righteousness."

There was a bit of panic in his voice, which was unprecedented.

The Empress Dowager in the bed tent said unhappily: "What happened in the middle of the night? Who did the queen? ”

Chang Zhiyi knelt on the ground and said respectfully: "It's me." ”

"Why? Didn't the mourning family tell you that the queen's mourning family is still useful? The Empress Dowager's voice suddenly became fierce, and she asked angrily.

"Chu Yuehua seems to know everything about the things back then."

"What!" The Empress Dowager was startled, opened the bed tent, turned over and sat on the bed: "How would she know?" Didn't everyone who knew about it all die? ”

On the night Qiu Zhengqian was killed in Fenglin, Lu San, who was guarding the tomb, witnessed the whole process and escaped. Wechen has been secretly looking for his whereabouts, and today he finally tracked down his whereabouts and directly disappeared. originally thought that he would sit back and relax as soon as he died, but who would have thought that he would fall for their secret Chen Cang's scheme.

When a coffin shop shopkeeper delivered a coffin to the maple forest this evening, he talked to Chu Yuehua in the bamboo house for a long time. Weichen suspected that Lu San's death was just a trick to hide from the world, just to cover the person's approach to Chu Yuehua. So she must have known what happened back then.

At that time, Chu Mubai and the others were not in Fenglin, and for the sake of insurance, Weichen sent hundreds of dead soldiers to burn Fenglin and extinguish them all. Who would have thought that Chu Mubai arrived at the critical moment, but he still rescued Chu Yuehua. ”

"Doubt? If you suspect that you will make such a big move, and let the mourning family blatantly prevent the queen from entering the palace, even if Chu Yuehua dies, the emperor will suspect the mourning family! ”

The Empress Dowager finally couldn't help but be furious.

"The incident was urgent, and Weichen was also for the sake of insurance, so he didn't have time to look ahead. After all, what happened back then was not trivial, and it was not sloppy at all. ”

Chang Zhizhi is sincere and fearful.

"You are cautious in your work, and this mourners agree. But you are too reckless today. The mourning family asks you, are you sure that the queen already knows about the events of the year? ”

Chang Zhiyi hesitated for a moment and shook his head: "The coffin shop shopkeeper has been conspiring with her for a long time, which is really suspicious, and Wei Chen personally interrogated him, his real name is Feng Han, and Lu San was Chu Lingchuan's subordinate at the beginning. ”

"Then Lu San saw Feng Han before he died?"

Chang Zhiyi shook his head again: "There are my people at the gate of the city who are closely guarded, but Lu San has no chance to enter the city." But then Feng Han has a chance to go out of the city! His whereabouts were never alert. ”

"Just because the two of them may know each other, you think there is fraud?"

Chang Zhiyi was questioned aggressively by the Empress Dowager, and he also began to feel weak: "I'd rather kill 10,000 by mistake than let go of one!" ”

"Enough!" The Empress Dowager pounded the bed and was furious: "Do you still think that the sins you have committed over the years are less?" Back then, the mourning family did secretly instruct you to find an opportunity to replace you and find a way to seize Chu Lingchuan's military power, and our Chang family could gain a firm foothold in the court. However, the mourning family did not let you do such a traitorous thing to seek glory.

You are ruthless enough, a Chu Lingchuan, if you kill it, you will kill it, but in the first battle of Cang'er Mountain, you lost my 6,000 elite soldiers in Chang'an, and you also presented three cities to the Xiliang people with both hands. If you hadn't been guilty alone, the Changjia Mansion would have collapsed, and the mourning family would have hated to do you immediately!

Now five years have passed, and you have been coerced by the Xiliang people, resulting in repeated defeats at the border passes, and countless casualties among the soldiers. As you said, as long as the war in Chang'an continues, the emperor can't do without you, and I can't do without my Chang family, and my Chang family can stand tall in the court. The mourning family believes in you for the sake of the Chang family's century-old plan!

But look at you now, one wrong step, one wrong step, it's not enough for your hands to be stained with the blood of the border soldiers, it's like a murderous person, even your niece doesn't blink her eyes, she says kill if she says, just because of a suspicion.

Zhiyi, are you for the Chang family, or for your own wealth and glory, do you think the mourning family is really old and confused, can't you see it? You are clearly pushing my Chang family to the top of the cliff, and you will never recover! ”

The Empress Dowager's words were filled with righteous indignation and momentum at first, but the more she softened later.

There is no perfect plan in the world, and if you want to bury one incriminating evidence, you will inevitably expose another flaw, and so on and so forth, without ending. If you want to survive, you can only keep killing.

Chang Zhiyi still knelt on the ground respectfully, without raising his head: "The eldest husband is not informal, and he will succeed in ten thousand bones, in order to hold the military power of Chang'an in his hands and make the emperor jealous of our Chang family, Weichen has no choice." What's more, Weichen has never made fundamental concessions to Xiliang, just a few defeats, it doesn't matter, and the territory will not be ceded later. Zhiyi kept peace in the interior of Chang'an for five years, and his merits outweighed his demerits. ”

"Fallacy, it's nonsense!" As soon as the Empress Dowager raised her foot, she just kicked Chang Zhiyi's face: "If it weren't for the fact that you started one step earlier, killed General Li on the border, and made him bear all the sins of collaborating with the enemy, now, my Chang family will be scolded by everyone in Chang'an, and the stench will be left for 10,000 years!" ”

Chang Zhiyi gritted his teeth: "So, all of this is all because she Chu Yuehua has nothing to do, if it weren't for her, General Li's identity would not have been revealed, and Chu Mubai couldn't come out, she should have died a long time ago!" ”

"At the beginning, in order to win over Chu Lingchuan, we married your sister Zhirou to him, which was destined to be a tragedy from the beginning. Zhirou she inadvertently knew the truth of the matter, she was ashamed of Chu Lingchuan, and she couldn't bear to expose you, so she willingly chose to commit suicide, leaving only Yuehua, a poor child. You, who are an uncle, are really iron-clad. ”

The Empress Dowager sighed with emotion and pretended to sigh.

Chang Zhiyi snorted coldly in his heart: "No poison, no husband, give up your small family to take care of everyone, this is all taught by the Empress Dowager, your old man is righteous, and Zhiyi is naturally remembered in his heart." ”

"The mourning family thought that this old thing would not be stirred up again, and they thought that this girl was clever and could give her a rich and noble life, but she didn't expect that it would cause her to be killed."

Chang Zhiyi lowered his head and pulled the corners of his lips sarcastically: "How can the Empress Dowager be so kind to a woman today?" If this matter is replaced by the Empress Dowager, I believe you will not be merciful, and you will get rid of Chu Yuehua mercilessly. ”

"What do you mean is to let the mourning family find a way to kill it?"

"Anyway, she definitely can't live now!"

The Empress Dowager also snorted coldly: "To put it lightly, today the emperor was angry and killed the mourning family, this is the first time he blatantly embarrassed the mourning family, which shows how precious the emperor is that Chu Yuehua." And he can let out cruel words, if Chu Yuehua makes any mistakes, no matter who it is, he will pay for it with blood! He would rather bear a thousand years of infamy, willing to overturn the country, the implication, still use the mourning family to say? If Chu Yuehua can't get out of danger today, it will be the day when he and Chang Jiayu die and break the net! ”

Chang Zhiyi was shocked: "Really?!" ”

The Empress Dowager let out a long sigh: "Chu Mubai has already ordered someone to secretly transfer troops with a token in hand!" Do you mean it! ”

Chang Zhiyi was stunned.

"The incident happened suddenly, we were caught off guard, and there was no plan in advance, do you think you have the certainty of self-preservation?"

Chang Zhiyi was sweating profusely: "But if she Chu Yuehua wakes up, the Chang family will undoubtedly collapse!" ”

"According to what you mean, what if the emperor also knows the inside story? Did you let the mourning family kill the emperor too, and you will do this emperor? ”

The Empress Dowager leaned down slightly, a sneer on the corner of her lips.

"Wechen doesn't dare."

"Don't dare? Seeing that you are so ruthless today, it is really uncertain. Zhiyi, don't forget, although the mourning family is the daughter of the Chang family, I am also the queen mother of the Mo family! You have tried again and again, this is to challenge the limits of the mourning family, right? ”

Chang Zhiyi raised his head: "The Empress Dowager is reluctant to that Chu Yuehua?" ”

"There is nothing to be reluctant to give, today the emperor is angry, you better pray that Chu Yuehua is okay, otherwise it is difficult to guarantee that he will not be angry with the crown and fight with us to break the net." He has long had the intention to get rid of the Chang family, and he is afraid that he already has the evidence of the Chang family's crimes, and his teacher is famous! Do you feel confident that you have it? Or is there an anti-heart? ”

Chang Zhiyi was silent and did not speak.

The Empress Dowager held her forehead with her hand, shook her head and said helplessly: "You go back!" How to deal with the matter, the mourning family has its own decision. You are warned not to act rashly. ”

"But ......"

"But what?!" The Empress Dowager said sharply: "Now the situation has been stirred up by you, if you can't peel off the cocoon and see the real wind direction, all your actions are stupid!" Get lost! Get out of here immediately! ”

Chang Zhiyi didn't dare to say more, so he retreated, knocked on the door twice, and only opened the door when he heard an echo outside, and quickly disappeared into Ci'an Palace.