Chu Tiankuo was overjoyed and blurted out: "What did you say?" ”

He was deaf and clear-sighted, how could he not hear what Yanxiang said? He heard it clearly, but asked 'what did you say?', not to let the cigarette say it again, but to be overjoyed.

Before, in Dali Temple, Yanxiang had an awkward relationship with him, threatening to be with Dongfanghong, and made up his mind to marry Dongfanghong. His heart ached, and he had no choice but to promise to fulfill her.

But at this moment, the cigarette said, 'Your home, won't it be my home in the future?' Isn't your father my father? 'That's the case. It seems that she regarded herself as his future lady, and suddenly overturned her previous conclusion that she wanted to be with Dongfang Hong.

He suddenly realized that his little junior sister had not changed her mind, and from beginning to end, he was the only one in her heart. How does this displease him?

She was just angry before, but he took the angry words he said to him seriously. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but laugh at himself.

He didn't expect that his home would be her home in the future, and his father would be her father, and there would be another possibility.

The elder brother asked rhetorically, 'What did you say?' The cigarette was stunned for a moment, but he didn't react.

Looking at the senior brother's face full of spring breeze, she couldn't help but feel a little aggrieved. As for it? The elder brother is gloating about seeing her repaired by the emperor? Probably not, she vetoed it herself.

She thought back to what she said, and then she realized why the senior brother was so happy. Dare to love him, this is to think that she wants to marry him, and she will accompany him to live in this palace when he enters the palace?

Dreaming. She didn't want to stay in this suffocating palace where she was bound everywhere.

Smoke is speechless at the wrong time. She obviously loves her brother so much that she can't let go of him, but she wants to leave him.

For example, if he enters the palace, is she really unwilling to accompany him to live in this palace?

For another example, she wants to quit to fulfill him and Sister Shuimai, can she do it?

The answer is obvious. She couldn't. At this moment, she regretted a little, why should she commit to what she couldn't do?

She gritted her teeth secretly and pursed her lower lip, driven by her pride, so that she had to continue to insist on her decision. If you say it, you will spill it, and it will be difficult to take it back. The words were out, and she had to justify herself.

Yan Xiang had an idea, and changed his words with a smile: "Senior brother, what I just mean is that you are like my brother and you are the prince, so won't I become a princess?" ”

Hearing this, Chu Tiankuo's heart was shocked, and his face changed slightly. Yanxiang didn't mean to ridicule him, but it set off a wave in his heart. A fear for the future that he had never felt before swept over him.

His fear of smoke became a prophecy. Just now, his father's attitude towards cigarettes made him panic.

Chu Tiankuo couldn't help but glance at his father.

Seeing the strange expression of the senior brother, Yanxiang couldn't help asking, "Senior brother, what's wrong with you?" ”

Chu Tiankuo's face was cold, his expression was extremely solemn, and he did not reply.

Yanxiang's mood was infected by the senior brother, and he was a little depressed, and his eyes followed his gaze.

Over there, the emperor is investigating the case of Duan Zisheng's dismissal. After he interrogated Duan Zisheng just now, at this moment, he was asking Li Shuang for confirmation.

I only heard Li Shuang reply: "Your Majesty, early this morning, a team of people in the palace brought the queen's message. The oracle said that Master Duan was removed from his post because he had secretly let Chu Tiankuo out of the prison and violated the law and discipline. The post of Dali Temple Qing was changed to be held by Dali Temple Shaoqing Yunbai. ”

Chu Aofei also came forward to testify: "Your Majesty, this matter is true, and the grass people are also present, which can be testified." ”

The Emperor stroked his beard and nodded. Then, with a solemn expression, his eyes looked at the queen like a knife, and he asked sharply: "The queen!" Did you do this? ”

The queen's heart beat suddenly, and she replied hard: "Yes, Your Majesty!" The oracle is indeed given by a concubine. ”

The courtiers, except for Xiangye, all looked surprised and frightened. Xiangye knew about this and did not panic. The other courtiers, on the other hand, were taken aback by this fact.

How not to be shocking? The harem is not allowed to interfere in politics! And how could the queen be so bold that she actually ordered the removal of the position of the courtier, and it was also the position of Dali Siqing.

An imperceptible smile tugged at the corner of Smoke's mouth. Hmph, the emperor wants to ask the teacher for the crime. Now, see how the queen behaves with herself? The emperor was furious, and she must have been unable to eat and walked around.

Hearing the queen's confession, the emperor's anger surged, the veins on his forehead were dilated, and his eyes were round. A face was as stiff as if it had been covered in frost.

"Xia Xizhi! How daring! The Emperor's voice was filled with anger and resentment, and he shouted.

The queen was taken aback, her legs went weak without warning, and she knelt directly in front of the emperor. She shuddered suddenly, and a cold sweat broke out all over her body.

Seeing this, King Yong'an pounced and knelt beside his mother, looking at his father with fear in his eyes, and pleaded bitterly: "Father and Emperor are angry! Father's anger! ”

The group of courtiers led by Xiang Ye also knelt down and said in unison: "The emperor is angry!" The emperor is angry! ”

Smoke was so happy that she couldn't help but want to clap her hands. However, on such an occasion, she did not dare to make a mistake. She only felt that she could let the queen suffer this loss, and the punishment she had just received was not in vain.

Of course, Dongfanghong and the others were as cheerful as smoke. It seems that the emperor is going to dispose of the empress.

The queen was terrified, but she was sane and not frightened. She raised her head and opened a pair of eyes and looked at the emperor, including the people around her. That's what makes her so powerful. Even in the face of adversity, it can still be tenacious.

Her gaze was originally looking at the emperor, but she was burned by the emperor's angry gaze, so she had to divert her gaze. When she saw Yanxiang's villainous and mocking face, her heart was on fire.

Her kneeling at the moment is not due to the incense. She developed a hatred for the incense of cigarettes.

This beam is finished. Originally, as Chu Tiankuo's little sister, Yanxiang hated her. Coupled with this, she hated the smoke even more. Chu Tiankuo and the incense of smoke became a thorn in her eye.

The emperor saw that King Yong'an was pleading with the courtiers, and asked, "Xia Xizhi! Who gave you the right to remove Duan Zisheng from Dali Temple? Could it be that you forgot that the harem is not allowed to interfere in politics? Last night, Chu Tiankuo broke into the palace to visit me, and you ordered him to be arrested and sentenced to beheading. In this matter, you said that you are the master of the harem, and it is excusable to maintain the safety of the harem. I'll spare you. ”

After a pause, he swept his cold eyes, and his voice was gloomy and terrifying: "Now, what is your justification for removing the courtier?" If you don't give me a reasonable explanation, I won't forgive! “

Smoke was stunned for a moment. The emperor is too soft-hearted. This is all evidence conclusive, and he still gave the queen a chance? Aren't you afraid of the queen biting back?

How did she know that the emperor has always ruled the country according to the law and will not use power to oppress people. What's more, in front of his emperor, King Yong'an, and all the courtiers, it is not okay not to give the queen a chance to explain.

In this matter, the empress made a mistake, and the emperor believed that the empress had made no mistake against him. opened her mouth to argue, but it was just to convince everyone.

The queen's heart was shocked, if she didn't fight for reason, I was afraid that the emperor would seize this opportunity and make a big fuss, and she would have no way back. At this point, she had no choice but to let it go.

Her face was pale, her eyes glared at the emperor sadly, and she said pitifully: "Your Majesty, the concubines don't know that there is an order to pardon Chu Tiankuo." After dealing with Chu Tiankuo's matter, why not deal with Dali Temple by the way? The so-called ignorant are not guilty. When there was no oracle, Dali Siqing Duan Zisheng secretly let Chu Tiankuo out of the prison, which was indeed illegal. The concubine ordered him to be dismissed, which was reasonable. ”

As the queen spoke, tears fell down, and the tears fell like rain, and the whole person looked pitiful.

It's a pity that the emperor is already dead to her and has no sympathy for her.

The queen choked up and said: "As for what the emperor said, the harem is not allowed to interfere in politics, and the concubines have always kept it in mind. It's just because the emperor is sick that he can't handle the government. The country cannot be without a king for a day, and the concubines have to go into battle to handle the affairs of the court and China for the emperor. The concubines took great pains, and the emperor not only did not commend them, but also punished them. The concubine felt aggrieved! ”

But it's really good at quibbling. Smoke had to impress the queen. It turns out that being a queen still has such a ability.

"Are you wronged?" The emperor sneered and said in a sarcastic tone: "The queen has a sharp mouth. ”

For a while, he couldn't find fault with her words. He knew that everything was planned by her. How could it be so coincidental? So much happens in one day. It's clear that someone is getting in the way.

If he hadn't woken up in time. Wasn't his emperor killed by her? Thinking of him, he couldn't help but gasp. She wanted to kill the prince, but she even said that she was wronged and wanted him to reward her?

The courtiers saw the opportunity to act: "Your Majesty, the queen mother is also a lot of hard work, in order to protect this country, she has worked hard. ”

The emperor was indignant and grieved, like a bony eel in his throat.

The queen saw the stitches: "Your Majesty, no matter how hard and tired you are, no matter how many grievances you suffer, the concubines are also willing." This country was built by the concubines and the emperor working together. As the lord of the harem, the concubine should guard this country for the emperor. ”

Threat! Naked threat!

This is the emperor's weakness, which blocked the emperor's mouth at once.

The queen is right, the country was laid by the two of them. Therefore, it is natural for the queen to remove Duan Zisheng from the post of Dali Siqing?

The Emperor's mind was in disarray. Something must be wrong! But what's wrong? The Emperor stood there, bowing his head in contemplation, his face a little blue.

Seeing this, the queen had the upper hand. Thinking that the queen framed the senior brother like this, but the emperor was helpless against her, Yanxiang was indignant.

A flash of inspiration flashed through her mind, and she had an idea.

She leaned over to the Emperor.

In the first year of Xingde, Hong Gaode proclaimed himself emperor, established the Great Western Kingdom, and set the capital of Fengcheng. In the early days of the establishment of the regime, the surrounding countries were eyeing the Great Western Kingdom and provoked wars for no reason. Before the expedition, Xu Guifei, the mother of Xigong, was 8 months pregnant. The emperor proposed an edict, if the prince was born, he would be named Hong Chengye, and the prince would be established, and if he was born a princess, he would be crowned Princess Changyu.

After Emperor Hong left the palace, Queen Xia made a plan to let Xu Guifei slip the fetus, who knows, the sky did not fulfill her wish, and the fetus in Xu Guifei's womb was born, and it actually survived.

"Your Majesty has already doted on Concubine Xu, and now, she has given birth to a prince again, and I see that our master and queen throne will not be able to be kept."

"Isn't it? Listening to the palace maid in the West Palace, the prince was born white and fat, very cute, his face resembled His Majesty, there was a righteousness between his eyebrows, and he must be a good emperor when he grows up. ”

This is the little palace maid in the queen's palace whispering in private.

Even if they don't talk about it, the Empress Xia knows that if she doesn't try to get rid of the prince, I'm afraid that life won't be better in the future.

She immediately summoned her elder brother Xiangye and Chu Xiang, the head of the imperial guard, to discuss countermeasures. They plotted to burn down the West Palace, which was carried out by General Chu.

At the critical moment, General Chu gave up the idea of harming the prince and exchanged his own son for the prince's exit from the palace.

Xu Guifei cried and cried, turned her heart sideways, picked up the hairpin, and used the tip of the hairpin to tattoo the word "heaven" on the prince's left shoulder. The stab is in the child's body, the pain is in the mother's heart, and after the stabbing is finished, Xu Guifei's painful liver and intestines are broken. She trembled and hung a jade pendant on the crown prince, which was given by the emperor himself, and there is only one in the world today.

Concubine Xu Guifei kowtowed to Chu Xiang, and said with tears in her eyes, "General Chu, please accept my three bows, your great kindness and great virtue, this palace will repay it in the next life." ”

"Niangniang, you can't help it, please get up ...... quickly" As he spoke, he heard footsteps outside, General Chu picked up the prince and hurriedly fled through the side door.

Xu Guifei fainted.

The person who came was the imperial doctor Feng Nanyang. Legend has it that this person was originally a man in the rivers and lakes, and his nickname was the fortune teller. He can pinch and calculate, not only has excellent medical skills, but also has extraordinary martial arts. He took away General Chu's son, performed light skills, shuttled freely in the palace, easily got rid of the pursuit of the palace guards, and left the city safely.

After Xia, he ordered people to burn down the West Palace, and Xu Guifei and a cadre were buried in the fire. During the inventory of the body, it was found that the body of a baby was missing. Plus General Chu Xiang's whereabouts are unknown. Empress Xia and Xiangye concluded that the prince was most likely taken away by Chu Xiang. So, Empress Xia secretly sent people to hunt down and kill General Chu Xiang.

In the fourth year of Xingde, the emperor returned triumphantly.

Xia Hou was shrewd and capable, and kept this matter a secret. Emperor Hong didn't believe that Xu Guifei really died in an accident. He often dreamed of the crown prince, and he has been sending people to investigate the matter secretly, but he has not been able to find out the truth, Chu Xiang disappeared, and Feng Nanyang also disappeared.

In the fifth year of Xingde, the queen gave birth to a son, and Emperor Hong named him Hong Cheng'an. The queen thought to herself, the emperor obviously did not have high hopes for this son. Empress Xia thought to herself, even if the emperor delayed issuing an edict and appointing a new crown prince, Emperor Rihong would die, and the throne would be her son's sooner or later. However, she still had some concerns, twenty-four years ago, she sent someone to hunt down and kill Chu Xiang, Chu Xiang was seriously injured and died, but the prince did not know who rescued him.

For more than 20 years, there has been no news of the prince. If the crown prince is still alive, then he will be the biggest threat to Hong Chengan's succession to the throne. Besides, once this matter is revealed, she and Xiangye will definitely be in trouble.

Emperor Hong Gaode reigned for 24 years, he worked hard, knew people well, the country was strong, and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment. Emperor Hong grew old and missed his lost prince more and more, and finally fell ill.