At this time, I don't want to fight with him anymore, even if I really walk out of this palace and leave him, I can't be careless, it will only be a hole in my heart, which will never be filled. Resting his head on his chest, he compromised and insisted: "Tell me everything I don't know, and don't let me know from other people's mouths one by one." ”

This time the situation is far from being as simple as his words, and there must be something in it that I don't know.

When he heard that I was relieved, he immediately confided with me, and I was relieved of my doubts.

Concubine Lu didn't move Uncle Mu for a reason, the Jinyi Guard was set up by Zhu Yuanzhang himself, formerly known as the Gong Wei Division, also known as the Pro-Army Governor's Mansion, and was in charge of the emperor's honor guard and guards. This department is only under the orders of the emperor, and the rest of the people are not allowed to drive, and can arrest anyone, including the emperor's relatives and relatives, and Uncle Mu has a seal personally granted by Zhu Yuanzhang on his hand, although he is not able to beat the emperor unconscious, but he can definitely judge anyone other than the emperor in the name of the emperor.

If Concubine Lu dares to force Jinyiwei, she will be against the military establishment in Beijing, and she will definitely not gnaw on this hard bone before she fails to control the situation. As everyone knows, Ah Ping took advantage of this and ordered Jinyi Wei to assassinate Concubine Lu's henchmen one by one at night.

The court became politically turbulent due to Ah Ping's absence, and the Lu family took advantage of the chaos to rise up and form a force of relatives to compete with the original court officials. Originally, he had made arrangements, but he didn't expect that he would wake up three days late, let alone calculate that he only had about half an hour of waking up every day, so he missed the opportunity to communicate with Yan Qi.

Therefore, the court was in turmoil for a while, and it was not until I found the upper filial piety that the situation was reversed. Fang Xiaoru relied on his prestige to call on the old ministers to work together to resist the forces of their relatives and form a two-legged trend.

It can be said that I helped in the periphery, forcing Concubine Lu to fight like a trapped beast, on the one hand, to compete with the forces of Fang Xiaoru in the court, and on the other hand, to deal with Jinyiwei and others, it can be said that she has no skills.

And as I guessed, when the people she sent out noticed that Zhu Gaochu was meeting with Fang Xiaoru, they suddenly realized that Zhu Gaochu represented the power of King Yan, and if the kings of the periphery worked together to work together to serve the emperor, it would be difficult to defeat the power of the kings even if he controlled the government. So an edict of the revocation of the feudal domain was distributed in all directions and sent down to all places. The emperor's edicts may have been useless in the face of the civil and military attachés in the court, but the false decrees issued everywhere would not be suspected, and anyone who did not obey them would be punished for treason.

Rebellion, this is a big hat buttoned down, who dares not to obey?

At this time, Concubine Lu still didn't notice that the fire around her had started, and she thought that the harem was already in her hands, but she didn't know that Ah Ping had regained her sanity, and acted quietly when she was slacking, when she was still dreaming that she would become the most powerful person in the Ming Dynasty, this "son" who had been used by her all her life walked in front of her step by step and tore up her dream.

Ah Ping said that Liu Qing died, and when the Jinyi guards surrounded Concubine Lu and the others, and the Imperial Forest Army turned against each other.

She knelt down in front of Ah Ping and begged bitterly, asking him to bypass Concubine Lu, saying that the past sins were all her ideas, and later saw that Ah Ping was expressionless and did not express her position, she shouted sadly "Your Majesty, the old slave is guilty" and hit the stone pillar in front of the palace, and her head was bleeding immediately. At that time, there was a dead silence on the field, no one dared to squeak, and everyone witnessed Liu Qing slowly swallowing his breath and closing his eyes.

Concubine Lu finally collapsed to the ground, sitting on the ground and looking at Liu Qing's corpse with a blank gaze, this maid has been with her for decades, even if her mind changes again, it is impossible not to mourn Liu Qing's death.

Ah Ping only said lightly: Since Aunt Qing has confessed, let's stop this matter.

Concubine Lu was suspicious, but she heard Ah Ping say slowly: The Queen Mother is kind to the Buddha, and she will go to Ziling Mountain to cultivate on the same day. At this time, Concubine Lu's face was like ashes, and she understood that the general trend had gone, and the next half of her life would only be spent on Ziling Mountain.

said that it was the same day, but in fact, on the same day, he sent someone to send Concubine Lu to Ziling Mountain, and sent troops to guard it strictly in the name of protecting the Queen Mother.

After doing this, he began to come to me, but he didn't know that Concubine Lu had already secretly ordered the killer to hunt us down. Fortunately, when Yan Qi led people to find the farmer we were staying in, he confronted the killers, and Yan Qi chased him out alone to save Zhu Gaoxu.

Yan Qi's reply to him last night was that we had fled temporarily to avoid the pursuit of the killer, and he had ordered people to search us with all their might. Yan Qi lied to him at this place, and because of what happened later, he hadn't been honest with him at this time.

Knowing more or less what had happened during this time, he paused to speak and fell silent.

He didn't speak quickly, but after saying something, he still felt his breathing become heavier, and he couldn't help but ask worriedly: "Then has your poison been removed?" How long does it take to recover? ”

He didn't answer and asked, "Do you still think I'm as cool as I used to be?" The words hugged me tighter, which did not need to be said, and I had already found that his hands were not cold when he was warm, and he did not feel cold by his side.

"Half a year, that's what the Imperial Doctor said. However, the words of the imperial doctor cannot be fully believed, and there are some exaggerations. ”

I didn't feel at ease when I heard him say this, he said that he was used to keeping a bottom line, and I don't know if he kept it in this matter. Half a year is neither short nor long, I hope he can recover as the doctor said.

"What are you thinking?" He asked, leaning into my ear.

"Can I ask you......" I hesitated for a moment, and asked my conjecture: "Did Liu Qing's death make you let go of your obsession with Concubine Lu?" ”

His body trembled slightly, and he blurted out a denial: "I have no obsession with her." ”

Sometimes the more anxious you are to express your position, the more it means that you are being said to be in your heart, I will not rob him, although Liu Qing's status is not high, but the meaning of Ah Ping will definitely not be so light. After being silent for a while, he suddenly spoke again: "Lan, look, I am transparent in front of you." I don't think I'm much different when I learn about it, but when I encounter something, I can't help but wonder if it's because I'm not her biological son. This thought snowballed and became a cancer in my heart, until I saw through her layout and caused you to be seriously injured by the concubine, and I decided to dig up this cancer. ”

Hearing this, although he knew that he had something to do, he still shook his palm to encourage him. He smiled at me, "I'm fine, I think it's good to tell you this." I spent months planning and laying out a plan with her as the core, and things went according to my expectations, I thought I would feel happy when I stood in front of her, but when it really came to that moment, I didn't feel happy, and my heart was like stagnant water. In the face of Aunt Qing's plea, I was just like an outsider looking at the scene on the stage, and I was even wondering when this scene would be finished. ”

When I heard this, I couldn't help but ask, "What happened later?" ”

"Later...... She slammed into the pillar beside me, and I instinctively reached out my hand, but I didn't have time. The dull sound was like a thump on my heart, and I felt very glaring when I watched the blood red run down her head, and the last time she looked at me there was a pleading in her eyes, and finally I felt pain. ”

He turned his eyes to look at me, "Lan, I actually don't feel pain and sadness in the face of the Lu family, but I can't feel it in front of Qinggu." I really wanted to go over and pick her up and call the doctor to heal me, but the situation didn't allow me to take that step, and it wasn't until she finally closed her eyes that I realized that the family affection I cared about in my heart was not given to me by the Lu family, but the woman in front of me. ”

Ah Ping's feelings for Liu Qing were seen with my own eyes as early as when I was in Ginkgo Village, so I never doubted their mother-son relationship at that time. Some things can be acted, but some things are subconscious and can't be acted.

So when I heard him say that Liu Qing died, I knew that it would be a big blow to him, and no one dared to ask if I didn't ask.

I'm afraid that even he himself is in a trance, and he doesn't understand that Liu Qing's status may even surpass Concubine Lu. This has nothing to do with whether he is related by blood, can I understand why he is indifferent when he hears Liu Qing's dream words, because the deceased biological mother has disappeared before he has time to appear in his life, and there has never been an intersection except blood, so how can he express his feelings?

After being silent for a while, I asked him again: "Then how is Liu Qing's funeral arranged?" ”

Thinking that he cared so much about Liu Qing, he would definitely have a good burial, but he didn't expect his answer to be: "I don't know." I looked at him in amazement, "How so?" He said, "There is a difference between a monarch and a slave, and she confessed in public that she had committed the crime of deceiving the king, and finally asked the guards to carry her body down." ”

There must still be a place for burial, and cremation was not practiced in this era, and since it was in the palace, the corpses would not be allowed to decompose, so there was always a specific place to place these prisoners.

"Let's find a chance to worship, just me and you."

There was a long silence, and when I thought he was silently refusing, he said, "Okay." ”

I have always believed that if you want to dissolve the knots in your heart, confiding is the best way. No matter how painful and sad it is, you need an outlet, otherwise the depression in your heart will only become a bigger and bigger snowball, and it will explode one day.

Originally, he wanted to wait for Ah Ping's physical strength to recover, but at night, he got up and ordered Yan Qi to prepare a sedan chair. I sat in the sedan chair with him, and the person carrying the sedan chair was very fast, except for Yan Qi following on the side, Uncle Mu brought a few brocade guards to escort him. After walking for a long time of incense, I heard Yan Qi outside calling: "Your Majesty, it's here." ”

The sedan chair fell and I walked out with Ah Ping, looking around, although I have been in the palace for a long time, there are not many opportunities to walk in the palace, and I don't know that there is such a desolate place in this gorgeous palace. Looking at a flat land overgrown with weeds, some grass is long, some grass is short, and some places are bare, and you can faintly see the earthen baotou and sparse tombstones.

At this time, an old eunuch reluctantly ran over and knelt on the ground to salute me and Ah Ping, but Ah Ping ignored it and let the old eunuch kneel on the ground all the time. I only heard Yan Qi ask on the side: "Where is the old palace maid who was sent over a few days ago buried?" ”

The old eunuch immediately replied: "Please allow the old slave to show the way for the emperor and the queen." ”

Only then did he get Ah Ping's "exemption", and the old eunuch got up and walked forward with his waist bowed, leading us to the corner before saying: "Emperor Qiqi, this is the safe place of those minions who have committed serious crimes. ”

Originally, there was only one lamp hanging at the door of this garden, which was already dim, and there was no moon tonight, so the corner was dark. The point is that I recognized it for a while, and I couldn't help but ask: "Where is the monument?" ”

But seeing that the old eunuch was stunned, he replied respectfully: "Back to Niangniang, a sin slave cannot have a grave and a tombstone." ”

His heart sank, and he reprimanded: "Let's retreat first." ”