Li Baoquan hadn't heard the emperor speak to him in such a tone for a long time.

In his impression, since the incident at Chengtianmen, the emperor has always spoken to him in an unobsoleteable tone of command.

Not only to Li Baoquan, in fact, when Ye Qianhuai expressed his wishes to the courtiers and chamberlains, most of them began with "I want" and "I decide".

But the tone in which she spoke to Li Baoquan at this time seemed to be discussing with Li Baoquan.

According to Li Baoquan's experience of following the royal family for many years, when the masters said this, they often had unreasonable thoughts in their hearts, hoping that someone would persuade them.

Li Baoquan quickly calculated in his heart, it was a tense matter of war at the moment, and His Majesty did not handle the official affairs of a table, but ran to the imperial mausoleum more than ten miles away, which was indeed suspected of dereliction of duty.

So, Li Baoquan looked up at the dark clouds in the distance and said, "Master, this looks like the sky is about to change, even if you take a car or two back and forth from the imperial tomb, don't catch up with the rain." ”

Ye Tianhuai followed his gaze and looked up, only to see a heavy cloud in the north hovering over the palace, so he couldn't be depressed.

Indeed, the heavens are about to change.

Ye Qianhuai lowered his head and was silent.

"Go buy two umbrellas, sell a pot of good wine, and come to the west horse market to find me." Ye said.

Li Baoquan was a little surprised.

Unexpectedly, the emperor insisted on going in the end.

But looking at this, the emperor was planning to go on horseback.

Li Baoquan instantly felt that his old bones, which were nearly half a hundred years old, had begun to squeak.

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The ancestral mausoleum of the Ye family was built at the northern foot of Anshan in the west of the capital.

The underground palace of the imperial tomb is very large, but it is all under the mountain rocks. What can be exposed to the ground, there is only a ten-zhang high Ming Tower, the system is similar to the building in the palace, and the ancestral hall tablet is enshrined inside.

In front of the Ming Tower is a wide official road paved with bricks and stones, and two rows of straight pine trees are planted on both sides of the road.

There was no one on the road.

Generally speaking, except for funerals and sacrifices, there are only officers and soldiers guarding the mausoleum, and idlers are not allowed to approach.

The emperor suddenly appeared here single-handedly, which made Ming Lou busy and confused.

Ye Qianhuai didn't say anything, she went straight to the top of the building and went to the incense pavilion where the tablet was enshrined.

The incense pavilion is not high, but the room is large, long and square, and each vermilion rafter pillar has a complex pattern of engravings that resemble paintings, and the windows are also painted with mysterious talismans in black ink.

The door of the incense pavilion is locked, and from the outside, you can faintly see that there are individual shrines inside.

"Your Majesty, you can't enter here!" As soon as Ye Qianhuai's hand touched the door, the lieutenant guarding the tomb behind him immediately stepped forward to stop her.

"The staircase behind this connects to the entrance of the dungeon, and the yin qi is very heavy. This door is a barrier between the human world and the Yellow Spring, once opened, the ghost energy will erode the human world, Your Majesty must not hurt the Holy Body. ”

Ye Tianhuai was shocked by his look as if he was facing a great enemy, put down his hand, looked at the marks on the rafters and the window, and thought that these were all used to seal the qi of the Yin Ghost.

She thought about it for a moment, and it was true that in the past, she had done all the sacrifices outside this room, and had never gone inside. But because she had always operated step by step in accordance with the regulations of the Ministry of Rites, she didn't know that there was such a saying in this Xiang Pavilion.

"Concubine Lan, are you in there?" Ye Qianhuai asked.

As soon as she spoke, Li Baoquan suddenly realized.

No wonder the emperor insisted on coming here and asked him to sell wine, it turned out that His Majesty wanted Concubine Lan.

In the Taimiao in the palace, only the tablets of the emperor and the empress can be enshrined, and although Concubine Lan was promoted to the concubine position by Ye Tianhuai behind her, she is not worthy of entering the Taimiao.

So if Ye Qianhuai wants to pay tribute to her, he can only come to the imperial mausoleum.

"Yes. The tablet of Concubine Lan is in the northwest corner. As he spoke, the lieutenant pointed into the room.

Ye Qianhuai nodded and said, "Li Baoquan, give me the wine." ”

Li Baoquan handed over the wine. Two palm-sized wine jars, heavy to start.

"Go down, all of you. Without my orders, whoever dares to come upstairs will be killed. Ye Qian said.

For a while, Li Baoquan felt that the emperor had changed back to the emperor he was familiar with.

On her body, people always feel a pressure not to be angry and self-threatening.

The officers and soldiers guarding the mausoleum and Li Baoquan did not dare to say much, so they went downstairs and waited in line in the doorway downstairs.

There was no one upstairs, only the mountain wind gusting, like a whimper.

Ye Qianhuai sighed and lowered his eyes, the essence in his eyes was exhausted, leaving only exhaustion and confusion.

She sat down cross-legged outside the door, then picked up a wine jar, lifted the red paper sealed on the wine jar, and a rich aroma of wine immediately came to her nose.

Good wine indeed.

There was no wine glass at the moment, so Ye Qianhuai directly put the wine jar on the ground an arm's length away.

Then she opened another altar and held it in her arms.

"Orb, I've come to see you." She looked at the closed door and said in a deep voice.

"Speaking of which, Fu Ling went to the gate of the palace that day, but he couldn't talk to you properly."

After speaking, she picked up the wine jar and raised her head to take a big sip.

The sky was completely overcast. The wind swept across Ye Qianhuai's cheeks, ruffling her broken hair.

Ye Tianhuai didn't realize it. After a glass of wine, she only felt that her chest was hot, and the words that were stuffed in her heart could finally be spit out smoothly.

"That Du Zhengen who killed you, I have corrected him. He was upright and upright. Now everyone knows that he is a heinous man, and his bones are rotten in mass graves and cannot be included in the ancestral hall. You can go with confidence. ”

She sighed again, propped her head, closed her eyes, and said regretfully, "I have lived until now, and I have never regretted anything. But I regret not being able to protect you. ”

Her voice was a little choked, she raised her head, looked at the Xiang Pavilion in front of her, her eyes were full of gloom, and said, "Baozhu, I am going to disappoint you, I can't be the emperor well." ”

Ye Qianhuai took another sip, and a blush appeared on her cheeks.

At this time, she no longer has the appearance of an emperor who kills and kills on weekdays, like an ordinary person who is down-and-out and decadent.

"If you see me like this, do you want to say that you believe that I can be a good emperor?" Ye Tianhuai smiled bitterly and said, "But I can't do it." It's too hard. ”

"In the past, they coaxed me as a child and confined me in the harem, no one listened to what I said, and no one did what I wanted to do, so I thought about saying one thing and another, and I wanted to rectify the dynasty. Now they are all afraid of me, but they feel that I am tyrannical and dictatorial, and I am a ruthless and militaristic king. ”

Ye Tianhuai put the wine jar in his arms on the ground and said, "What do they know?" The Beidi army is all the remnants of the king of the northern capital, and in the previous life, it was these people who overthrew me and overthrew Dajing. In this life, how can they give up? Make peace with them? Are you kidding? ”

She sighed and said, "But now that the front line is tight, if I purge the remnants of the Northern Capital at this moment and implement joint sitting, it will only make the army's morale even more dissipated." ”

Ye Tianhuai picked up the wine jar, took another sip, and said: "Even if this battle costs the people and money, it must be fought." Although the sin is in me, the merit is in the future. ”

Her gaze swept across the looming shrines in the room, and said, "In my life, I'm afraid it will be difficult to leave the reputation of Mingjun in the history books." ”

On the edge of the dark clouds, a muffled thunder sounded.

(End of chapter)