"Okay, okay, stop crying, Mother can already feel your thoughts and your emotions." She stretched out her other hand and gently touched Lan Ying's head.

"In the future, my mother will not lock you up here because she wants to protect you, you can go out if you want to go out in the future, and come to see your mother when you want to come to see your mother." She smiled. "I'll do my best to protect you."

She is not without confidence when she says these words, after all, Xie Qingqiu is dead, most of their plan has been completed, and the next things are no longer difficult, everything will be logical, and the empire will become the empire in which she is in power alone.

"Thank you, Mother." Lan Ying buried the urn in her hand and thanked her angrily, but she never raised her head.

*

"The inspection report is out." Zhang Tai put a stack of inspection reports on Lan Yunling's desk.

When faced with important things, they are still more accustomed to using paper documents, and the same is true for the entire interstellar world.

Lan Yunling's eyes shot out a few fine lights, and the fine lines at the corners of her eyes seemed to be stretched out by full emotion. "How did it turn out?"

Even though the document was placed in front of her, she didn't have the patience to read it carefully, and she was eager to get a definite answer right away.

"It turned out to be her." When he said this result, Zhang Tai's face couldn't help but show a smile.

Lan Yunling's excitement fell into place, and her face suddenly became radiant, and she faintly revealed some ruddyness. "That's good, that's good."

"Then now we can move on to the next step, we can move on to the next step." She immediately got up from her chair and circled around the study, the excitement in her eyes suggesting that she was fantasizing about what it would be like at this moment.

Zhang Tai's eyes kept locking on her in the study, and there was a faint smile on the corner of her mouth. But the deep meaning behind it is unknown.

Listening to Lan Yunling repeat it so many times, she also responded to it. "yes, it's finally time for the next step."

*

On December 4, 1258, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Empire, Zhang Tai, announced in public that the fire on the wedding day of his only son and the Imperial Major General Xie Qingqiu was not an accident, because traces of arson were found, and he suspected that it was someone with a heart and retaliated.

Zhang Tai was deeply saddened by the death of his son, and then announced that he would thoroughly investigate the truth of the matter and would not tolerate the mastermind behind the scenes.

As soon as this news came out, it once again caused an uproar in the interstellar world.

And Zhang Tai himself was even more resolute, and on the day of the announcement of the incident, he applied to Lan Yunling for a guard team to surround the wrecked church, and also hired a professional investigation team.

The efficiency of high-end talents is very high, but many clues have been searched in two or three days. Even if these clues do not convincingly point to who the mastermind behind the scenes is, they still show everyone a way to the truth.

On December 7, 1285, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Empire, Zhang Tai, led a group of escorts to the door of the mansion of the Imperial General Liu Yanyao.

Zhang Tai did not uphold the so-called salute before the soldiers, but directly shouted at the mansion with a microphone, asking Liu Yanyao to come out and give her an explanation.

His recklessness and fierce words really don't look like a foreign minister who has been in the officialdom for many years.

The grief of her appearance and the pathos of her voice allow everyone who sees and hears to be able to empathize with her sadness and sadness as a mother.

However, after shouting for a long time, it was only Liu Yanyao's housekeeper who came out. She hurriedly opened the door and walked out, and she was not frightened by the battle made by Zhang Tai, and her behavior was still very polite and decent.

The housekeeper apologized in a low voice, telling Zhang Tai that his admiral had recently gone to a military exercise and was not at home, and that he would have to wait a week before returning home, so that Zhang Tai would come back another day.

It is really embarrassing that this matter ended in such a joking way.

Even though Zhang Tai was helpless, he would not attack a housekeeper who had no real power and was not directly involved in the matter, so he had to leave in a sneer.

The onlookers all sighed, not knowing whether they were sympathizing with Zhangtai who had lost his son, or whether they were deeply bored because they had not been able to see a dispute.

*

"This Liu Yanxiao ......" Zhang Tai thought for a while, but didn't come up with any suitable adjectives to describe her, so he had to roll his eyes a few times tiredly. It's a shame that I'm so out of shape today, standing at the door of their house shouting and making trouble, but no one is there. ”

She sighed leisurely, untied her coat, hung it on a hanger by the door, and walked into the bed.

Zhang Liu lay in the futon and looked at her half-sitting, there was no big emotion in his face and eyes, as if he didn't care about everything in this world anymore.

"Xiao Liu'er, why don't you speak?" She sat down on the edge of the bed and took the man into her arms. "Half of my life today is for you."

"Originally, I couldn't cry or be sad, but as long as I thought that my little Liu'er might have left me, maybe she might really not be in this world, and she was killed by that Liu Yanyao, I felt so angry and sad"

She was unimpressed by Zhang Liu's silence, she had long been used to it for so many months.

Accustomed to his sudden taciturnity, accustomed to him not being as cheerful, willful, and pampered as before, but it didn't matter, as long as people were in her arms, nothing was a big deal.

But today, when she finished saying that paragraph, Zhang Liu gave a rare response, and his response seemed to carry some kind of emotion.

"Are you really going to be sad if I'm dead?" He lay obediently in her arms, and there was no movement to struggle and resist, and he raised his head to look at Zhang Tai when he said this.

This upward angle can easily make a male look pitiful and petite and cute.

"Are you really going to be that sad when I'm dead?" He asked again, and the question in his tone was far more questioning than questioning.

Zhang Tai was taken aback by his sudden response, and after getting the response, she seemed to be a little happy, holding Zhang Liu's face and landing a kiss on his forehead.

"Of course I will, after all, I love you so much."

Zhang Liu maintained this posture and looked at Zhang Tai fixedly for a few seconds, and after a few seconds, he hummed, and then obediently lay down on Zhang Tai's shoulder socket.

It seems that he has become accustomed to this way of getting along, as if he has become accustomed to her embrace, and as if he has become accustomed to being a soulless canary.