Palace.

"The old minister knocks on the queen!"

"Father, please get up, there is no outsider here who can't do this!"

"You still have to do it, but the people in your palace have already thoroughly investigated?" Ye Lingtian was wearing a dark blue brocade robe, his waist was straight, and he didn't look like an old dragon bell at all.

The queen personally helped Ye Lingtian up and said, "Father, it has been thoroughly investigated, and all the problems have been cleaned up." ”

"Well, that's very good!" Ye Lingtian slowly sat down on the seat prepared by the empress, and then looked at the empress and asked in a deep voice, "How is Xun'er's affairs in the Four Princes' Mansion?

"Xun'er's side, I have persuaded the emperor to let Xun'er serve the four princes by order, and I also reward Xun'er with lotus seed and lily soup every time to take back to the Four Princes' Mansion to eat with the four princes. After a pause, the queen said in a low voice: "However, Xun'er said that the lotus seed and lily soup sent every time was sent out intact every time......

"I didn't expect it!" As he spoke, Ye Lingtian's cobra-like eyes glanced at the palace seemingly inadvertently, and asked in a low voice, "Has she done anything else about this?"

Hearing this, the queen's eyes moved slightly.

Mama Gao on the side, seeing the queen's face, her expression moved, she stepped forward to Ye Lingtian's ear, and said in a low voice: "Miss Yansun has told Niangniang that the four princesses don't seem to have much reaction to this matter, but every time the queen asks for something to be sent to the four princesses. The four princesses were all sent away with various reasons, but she didn't seem to understand the meaning of the queen and the emperor asking Miss Yansun to inherit the four princes. ”

Hearing this, Ye Ling Tianming was clear, raised his hand, and said in a low voice: "She just doesn't oppose or approve of the attitude, she looks like an outsider!"

"Yes!" Mama Gao waited on the side, bowed her head and replied.

Ye Lingtian looked at the queen and said, "The old body doesn't believe it, she can be so calm after Xun'er is pregnant. No matter what method you use, you have to let Xun'er feed the fourth prince that bowl of lotus seed and lily soup!"

Hearing this, the queen glanced at Mama Gao beside her and said, "You don't need to serve here, don't let anyone get close when you look outside, go down!"

"Yes, the old slave is retiring!" Hearing this, Mama Gao's expression moved slightly, it seems that Master Ye's entry into the palace was not purely to discuss Ye Xun's affairs in the Four Princes' Mansion.

He quickly retreated, and then quietly stood guard outside the door of the dormitory.

In an instant, only Ye Lingtian and the queen were left in the queen's bedroom.

The queen asked directly: "Father, aren't you afraid that the medicine you gave me will be found in the lotus seed and lily soup of Xun'er?" After all, one of the hundred miles around the fourth prince is the valley master of the Medicine King Valley, and besides, Mu Qingyan's medical skills are also obvious to all......

"Since I can give it to you, I am naturally not afraid that they will be able to find any clues, those medicines are not poisons, but tonics with special effects on men, and they dissolve in water and water. Colorless, tasteless and non-toxic, who can doubt your head, besides, you and the emperor gave this lotus seed and lily soup to Xun'er for the four princes to pass on the ancestry. Ye Lingtian had a calm face and said, "The lotus seed and lily soup in the palace is well-known to everyone with a little aphrodisiac, you just aggravate the medicinal power. ”

"That's the case, but how can the fourth prince not know that he hasn't eaten a bite after so many times. The emperor and I don't dare to force him, and you know it, father......" The queen frowned and said cautiously.

When Ye Lingtian heard this, his brows furrowed instantly, his eyes tightened suddenly, and he said: "The emperor is sick, the fourth prince has been in and out of the palace a lot recently, is it possible that he will not start in this aspect? ”

When the queen heard this, her expression was not good, and she looked at Ye Lingtian's expression becoming heavy, and said, "Father, these days in the palace have not been very peaceful recently!"

Once he said this, Ye Lingtian raised his eyebrows and asked, "What happened, why didn't I hear the wind at all?"

In addition to the matter of the third prince and the death of Concubine Xiao, what other major events are there?

Even if the people in the palace are ordered to ban speech, there are always some people among the officials who can get news from the palace, no matter how close the news is, where there are people, there are greedy, and people always have what they want.

Coupled with the people he has secretly planted in the palace for many years, how could he not get the news?

For the people he arranged, he is very confident, if there is something, there will be some rumors after all.

For example, the emperor's illness, others think that the emperor is really sick, but in fact, it is only because of poisoning that his health is getting worse day by day.

He already knew these things, and he also knew what Xiao Guifei did behind the scenes of the Queen Mother, but he didn't say anything about what Xiao Guifei did, and he didn't participate in it.

Xiao Guifei thought that if she overthrew the emperor, the third prince Yan Lie would be able to ascend to a high position, it was really a joke, it was just whimsical, the crown prince was the crown prince, no matter how much the emperor favored him.

It's not always just a concubine, it's just a prince, and the crown prince and the position of the East Palace are not his daughter and grandson.

Besides, Concubine Xiao really thought that the emperor's favor for her was directed at her, and she didn't know until she died, but she was just a little like that woman!

"That's because the four princes in the palace have been suppressing it recently, and no one dares to say more, who dares to say more when the four princes say a word. This is also not allowed to be revealed by anyone, so it is normal for my father not to hear any rumors. It's just that now, the situation seems to be a little serious, and I have no choice but to tell my father. The queen looked solemn and whispered.

Ye Lingtian listened, his expression was furrowed, his brows were deep, and he asked in a deep voice, "What happened?"

Looking at the queen's solemn face, Ye Lingtian's face became gloomy, and his eyes were even thicker and colder. The fame and majesty of the four princes have overshadowed the emperor, and the crown prince is still not able to overshadow the four princes now as the superintendent of the country.

This is the last thing he wants to see, although he wants to win over, but this is the situation that he is least likely to see.

The emperor is also quick to see the situation...... If this is the case, next, the fourth prince is a little more careful, then ......

The queen sat beside Ye Lingtian, stretched out her head to Ye Lingtian's ear, whispered, and then retreated to her seat with a gloomy face.

"Since the fourth prince is meddling in the affairs of the palace, what the prince said is not easy to do, and there are also a lot of strange things on the side of Cining Palace!"

"What's going on?" Ye Lingtian raised his eyebrows, surprise flashing in his eyes.

You know, no one is more familiar with the ruthlessness of the Queen Mother, if it weren't for the fact that he happened to know some secrets back then, I am afraid that he would not be able to keep them now, and it would be impossible for his daughter to become the queen.

Besides, what if the emperor knew that the Queen Mother had killed Li Xi, it wasn't that he couldn't do anything to the Queen Mother! At most, he was under house arrest in Cining Palace, and every time the four princes were angry, they killed the people around the Queen Mother, and the four princes didn't dare to kill the Queen Mother, but they couldn'......

There are many ruthless and strong martial arts people around the Queen Mother, even if she is not powerful now, she will not be able to stop what the Queen Mother is doing secretly.

Therefore, what strange things could happen in Cining Palace made him very curious!

"Dead people, many people died, people died every day, at the beginning one or two died with raw faces, and then every day there were one dead faces with a living face to occasionally some palace people, eunuchs, and maids with familiar faces!" the queen said in a deep voice, and when she said this, her heart trembled even more uncontrollably, and she was terrified all day long.

Hearing this, Ye Lingtian's heart jumped suddenly, his face was stained with frost, and he said solemnly, "When did it start?"

"It seems that it started from the day of the disappearance of Hangzhou City, but at the beginning, I didn't pay attention to it. After all, people die every day in the backyard of the palace, these are common things, and it is some eunuchs who die, and the palace maids will not pay attention to it. However, later, the corpses of those dead eunuchs and palace maids appeared in Cining Palace inexplicably, even if they were disposed of. At night, he would still appear silently in Cining Palace, and so on and so on, and I realized that I had calculated the date strangely. The queen said, her brow furrowed.

"The people on the side of Cining Palace were panicked and couldn't catch the murderer, so the word of haunting spread, and then I also sent someone to investigate. However, no matter how much I investigated, I still didn't find anything, so I was even more uneasy. If it continues like this, I'm afraid it will affect the reputation of the crown prince......"

What the queen thought of was that the crown prince had just been in charge of the country and had killed so many dissidents, and now that something like this had happened in the inner courtyard of the palace, some people had begun to rumor in private that it was because the prince was unkind that those unjust souls found someone to ask for their lives, and then avenged the queen mother.

Of course, those who chewed their tongues in private were secretly dealt with by her, so those remarks that were unfavorable to the prince did not spread like a spring breeze.

However, if she does this, she can't contain the fire, and if she is allowed to continue like this, it will really make her sleep!

Ye Lingtian looked at the queen and said, as he spoke, he couldn't help clenching his fists and said in a deep voice, "What does the queen mother show?"

After hearing these words, he had a vague premonition in his heart.

When the queen heard this, her brows furrowed, her eyes were uncertain, and she said in a tight voice: "So far, the queen mother has been like a person who has nothing to do, and she is doing everything as usual. It seems that none of the dead people have anything to do with her, as if the dead palace maids and eunuchs are not from her Cining Palace. ”

"Of course, there are some people who don't know if it's Cining Palace, but how can they not appear in Cining Palace for no reason, there must be something related!"

"The more abnormal things are, the more problematic they are, and I'm afraid that something big will happen to Cining Palace sooner or later. Ye Lingtian raised his eyebrows, raised his eyes and looked in the direction of Cining Palace.

When encountering such a thing, the first reaction should be shocked and angry, but the Queen Mother did not react at all, which should show that the Queen Mother knew what the people who died for.

It's not that the Queen Mother doesn't say anything, but she has already done something in secret.

When the queen heard this, she was horrified, her face changed greatly, and she asked in a tight voice: "What will happen......?

When she heard this, she seemed to think that her father knew what the Queen Mother had done, so that such a thing would happen.

"Do you know why for a while, the Four Princes left the capital and went to Hangzhou City. Ye Lingtian said in a deep voice, looking at her with far-reaching eyes.

"I know, it's not because Mu Qingyan is going to Hangzhou City to recuperate. Why did my father talk about this, could it be that this matter had something to do with what happened in the palace?" the queen was a little puzzled, and she couldn't figure out what the connection was in her head.

"It's normal for you not to know this, because the Tsinghua Palace is not included in the royal villa, but the private residence left by the first emperor to the fourth prince. And, Lin Hao, the dumb son of the Lin family, was so stupid that he was used to lead people to attack Tsinghua Villa. Speaking of this, Ye Lingtian's brows furrowed even deeper.

When the queen heard this, she was stunned for a moment and asked, "Father, what kind of place is the Qinghua Villa? Why does it come out of your mouth as if it is a mysterious existence?"

When Ye Lingtian heard this, he thought about it, his eyes moved, he recalled, and said in a tight voice: "The Qinghua Pavilion was built by the first emperor for Ye Xin and Shui, others don't know, but I know it very well. Others say that the first emperor is infatuated with Ye Xin, but in fact, it is just a cover-up. ”

Ye Xin, she knows, but isn't Shui Qingqing the queen mother's maiden name?

My father always called the Queen Mother the Queen Mother, and he never said her name!

"Father, you feel very contradictory in what you say, how can the private house built by the first emperor for the queen mother have Ye Xin's share? What does the first emperor want to hide from people?" The queen didn't understand, and her head was full of clues.

"Besides, the Lin family's Lin Hao is just a thing that has more than enough success and more than failure, and those who dare to use Lin Hao are not afraid to move stones and shoot themselves in the foot. ”

However, Ye Lingtian's next words made the queen stunned, and she didn't come back to her senses for a long time.

"That's the Queen Mother, not the Queen Mother, Ye Xin is no longer just Ye Xin. Ye Lingtian's eyes narrowed slightly, and he said in a low voice.

My mind is full of images of the scene......

When the queen heard this, her expression turned pale, as if she had thought of something, and she asked tremblingly: "Father, do you mean that the current queen mother is not the original queen mother, who is the queen mother? Why hasn't anyone found out that the queen mother is not the queen mother all these years?

This kind of news is really terrifying, if there is no answer, it is really hard to swallow, and I can't sleep at night!

"The real name of the current Queen Mother is Shui Linglong, and she is the same person as Shui Linglong, they are ......" Ye Lingtian squinted his eyes and said: "And, Ye Xin has had an inseparable relationship with the Shui Clan since she was a child......"

"What?" When the queen heard Ye Lingtian's words, her eyebrows jumped, Huo Ran's eyes widened, and she said: "However, the queen mother is not much different from the appearance I saw when I entered the palace back then, is it possible that there are still two people in this world who are so similar?"

Ye Lingtian frowned tightly, his eyes were as solemn as they were at the beginning, and he said in a deep voice: "The two of them are related by blood, and it is normal for them to look similar, as long as the two of them don't speak quietly, often their relatives can't easily distinguish them." ”

Slowly recalling what was going on in his mind, he said in a tight voice.

When the queen heard this, she was silent, her eyebrows were condensed, and there were too many doubts in her expression.

Ye Lingtian was also silent, as if he was thinking about something.

For a moment, the hall fell silent.

After a long time, the queen spoke: "Father, what about the real Queen Mother? Where did she go? The current Queen Mother ...... Isn't it to give the real queen ......?"

"......" Ye Lingtian's expression became more solemn when he heard this, and after being silent for a while, he said slowly: "You don't continue to ask about this matter, as for the queen mother in the palace, you should be cautious not to have too much conflict with her." Let them all die for you, and we'll pick up a ready-made one in the back. ”

"But, father, why do you know so much what the Queen Mother did?" the queen was still full of doubts, and it was difficult to be quiet, and if she didn't ask for a result, she was afraid that it would be difficult to sleep.

Ye Lingtian raised his eyebrows, his eyes fell on the queen's face, his eyes were dark, and he said in a deep voice: "Hmph, naturally you have to know to use it, they don't know that I have been to the water tribe and have seen them." This is really my brother!"

When the queen heard this, her eyes rolled and she asked, "Father, you said it was because of Ye Lingxiao!, but if he knew, how could he indulge others to harm Ye Xin so much?"

"Hahaha, of course he won't, but what can he do when he is too busy to take care of himself!" Ye Lingtian's eyes shot a vicious gaze, and he let out a gloomy laugh, his expression full of hatred.

Hearing this, the queen no longer understood, and knew that in what might have happened back then, her father secretly did it, but no one knew.

She only knew that Ye Xin was killed by the Queen Mother, but she never knew that her father also had merit in it......

"Father, you and Ye Lingxiao are brothers, why do you hate him so much? Isn't it, what kind of holiday hatred do you have with him?" the queen looked at Ye Lingtian with her eyebrows and asked in a low voice.

Ye Lingxiao appeared in the palace once after the failure of the Third Prince's Monarch Yan Lie's mutiny, and it was also that time that she saw with her own eyes what is called the Immortal Wind Dao Bone.

Since childhood, everyone has been handsome and beautiful for their own people, but when they are not handsome in front of Ye Lingxiao's children and grandchildren, their father is even worse than Ye Lingxiao.

It's not to grow the ambition of others and destroy one's own prestige, but if the world evaluates it, it will definitely be commented on.

As soon as these words came out, Ye Lingtian trembled, and his expression was even lower to freezing, as if he was enduring some extreme hatred.

The queen was also taken aback by Ye Lingtian's expression, and then she didn't dare to ask any more, looking at her father nervously.

After a long time, Ye Lingtian took a deep breath, tried to ease the unhappiness in his heart, and said: "You don't need to pay attention to those old things, you just need to know that now you are the queen and the mother of a country." They don't want to listen to you and Jun Yuan, no matter how famous they are, how capable they are, they don't want to be driven by us!"

When the queen heard this, she nodded, and replied, "What my father said is true!"

"As for the affairs in the palace, you don't have to interfere too much for the time being, just quietly watch from the wall. I will intervene in this matter with discretion, as long as it does not affect the affairs of Yuan'er, and I don't have to worry too much. ”

The queen nodded and said, "I see!"

Four Princes' Mansions.

In the early spring, the snow began to melt little by little, and Mu Qingyan had nothing to do and didn't go to the medicine garden, just a stove recliner, a cup of tea, and a plate of flower cakes, leaning on the corridor under the eaves.

Look at the day and feel the sun changing in the season.

The spring breeze blew slightly, stirring a few strands of green silk on her forehead, a good scene.

At this time, the four princes came into the painting, and Mu Qingyan's eyes were shining, and she squinted with a smile.

"Listening to Shao Dong, you never left the garden outside early in the morning?" Jun Lin walked to Mu Qingyan's side and naturally sat down opposite him.

"Husband, do you want tea?" Mu Qingyan asked with a smile as her gaze moved from the garden scene to King's Landing's face.

King's Landing watched her drink a cup of light tea in her hand that tasted better than the silver needles of the Snow Mountain, she couldn't help but raise her eyebrows, curiosity flashed in her eyes, she reached out and picked up the tea in front of her and took a sip......

"This tea ......" he had never drunk before, looking as light as boiled water, but there was a slight fragrance in the mouth, and he could still leave a sweet aftertaste when he fell into the stomach.

"This is the tea I made by collecting winter snow and freezing peach blossoms and plum blossoms, how about it? Not bad, right?" Mu Qingyan said with a smile as she looked at King's Landing.

At this moment, she is like a proud and inviting pet, and people can't help but want to hug her fiercely.

King's Landing put down the teacup in his hand, and said in a somewhat suppressed voice: "It's good!" After that, he reached out and poured another cup, and said leisurely: "This tea will send a pot to the study for this king." ”

"......" feelings, he came to rob her of things, and he had to rob her of tea, how poor is this!

Obviously, he snatched all the silver needles from her snow-capped mountains, so she had to do it herself.

When Mu Qingyan heard this, she couldn't laugh anymore, and said: "There isn't much tea in this place, I don't have enough to drink! Besides, the food and drink in your study have already been delivered, so forget about the tea I have here!"

The implication is: it's okay to drink here, but it's impossible to give you a pot!

"Well, the princess is talking about the things given by Concubine Ye, and the king has never eaten them, but the princess is very happy to spend them when she receives other people's things. King's Landing looked at her face, and dropped such a sentence without being salty, his expression was pale, but his eyes were unpredictable.

As the words fell, the people of King's Landing had risen and walked slowly into the house.

Mu Qingyan looked at the back of King's Landing, her eyes blinked, her eyebrows were slightly raised, and a question rose in her eyes, what Uncle Jun said, there is something in his words!

Could it be that she knew, Mu Rin gave her silver, and Chu Xun also gave her silver?

No, usually King's Landing doesn't bother to ask about this kind of thing, today, why did you suddenly say that?

"How do you compare what you eat with silver, you don't know what will happen when you eat it, but the silver is different, and you can spend it no matter how you spend it......"

When Mu Qingyan saw King's Landing suddenly turned back, she was so frightened that she quickly silenced and stared at him in shock.

King's Landing stared at the lazy goblin where he was nesting, and said lightly, "It's windy outside, so it's more convenient for us to go back to the house and chat." ”

"I think it's nice here!"

"If the king says it's not good, it's not good......"

Concubine Ye's courtyard.

"The master said that as long as the fourth prince enters the palace again, it can be done......"