Outside the prison, Xiao Ning'an's carriage was waiting, and there were twenty guards standing around him.

Li Yuejiao deliberately paid attention to it, it was sent by these people when she came, and when she left, there were no changes, no people, and no guards had different colors on their faces, so she was a little relieved.

They are all people sent by the queen, and in this way, the queen is not suspicious of the prince now, and they have not seen through their identity.

However, the Xilai little inner prison he played should not be an important person, at least this group of guards is not familiar with him and has never dealt with him, otherwise it is impossible not to see that he has changed people.

Xiao Ningan got into the carriage as usual, turned back to Li Yuejiao and said, "You can come up too, the palace is very tired, you press the head of the palace." ”

"Yes." Li Yuejiao hung her head.

She thought she had to follow the car.

According to the rules of the palace, the palace maid of the inner prison is not allowed to share the car with the nobles, but when she came, because she was in a hurry, Xiao Ningan ordered her to get in the car; When he left, he used this reason to get himself in the car again.

The guards didn't really care.

The people of Beijing know that the prince has a good heart, there is no pomp, and when he goes out in the past, unless he has a ceremony, he doesn't like to use the guard of honor, and he brings a maximum of four guards, and he will let the eunuch and palace maid who accompany him sit in the car, and he will also order the guards who follow to ride horses.

Being kind to people at the subsection and acting carefully, Li Yuejiao felt that Xue Zhen and the prince were really nephews and uncles.

After the two got into the carriage, the coachman urged the carriage, but because he heard Xiao Ningan say that he had a headache, the car was very slow, so as not to bump the nobleman again. @

In the car, Li Yuejiao and Xiao Ningan sat separately, and there was another person in the middle.

Xiao Ningan did have a headache, leaned on the high cushion in the car, and rubbed his forehead.

Although the two are relatives and are still different in generation, Xiao Ningan is only twenty-five years old, he abides by the rules and learns the classics to grow up, although he relies on expedient measures to get people into the car, but it is impossible for his eighteen-year-old nephew and daughter-in-law to really press his head.

Unorthodox.

Of course, it's best that no one in this life knows about Li Yuejiao playing the little eunuch next to him, otherwise they will be embarrassed if it spreads.

And although Li Yuejiao learned some fur from her father, Xiao Ningan didn't tell her, and she wouldn't take the initiative to go over and rub someone, so she just sat next to her, thinking about how to behave.

The carriage walked for a while, Xiao Ningan felt that his headache was lighter, so he put down his hand, leaned over to Li Yuejiao, and whispered in his ear: "If you are imprisoned today, what you say, can you still count?" ”

The guards outside are all masters and have good ears, so he keeps his voice very low and his words are slurred, so as not to be heard.

Li Yuejiao nodded vigorously, and said respectfully:

"Your Highness, do you want to go back to the Imperial Immortal Garden now?"

When she said this, she looked into Xiao Ningan's eyes, which was quite reminding.

The East Palace is in the Imperial City, and only by returning to the East Palace can the prince find a way to see Emperor Jianlong, and he can also know the news faster, so that he can save Emperor Jianlong as soon as possible after getting the medicine.

Xiao Ningan was silent for a while.

He must have known all the things he was in the prison, and she didn't send someone to arrest her, and after she got out of the prison, it was more like nothing had happened......

Thinking about it, he raised his hand and knocked on the wall of the car and ordered, "Go back to the East Palace." ”

The coachman hurriedly stopped the carriage, peeked at the guards who followed, and did not dare to make a sound, nor did he dare to turn according to the prince's words.

The guards are all sent by the queen, and there are many of them, so it's better to listen to them.

Xiao Ningan saw that the carriage was not moving, and knew what the coachman was afraid of.

He used to be good-tempered, but today, he was really fed up with everyone refusing to listen to his orders, so he simply sat down on the side of the car, lifted the curtain with a sigh, looked at the leader of the guards, and asked with a smile:

"Commander Qi, is this palace still the prince of the East Palace?"

"Your Highness forgives your sins, and the last general will not dare to wait." Commander Qi immediately knelt down on one knee and said so.

Twenty guards were brought to their knees.

Li Yuejiao helped on the side: "Your Highness's headache has just improved slightly, beware of the wind." ”

"Bengong can't even go back to his own house now, so why don't you care if you have a headache?" Xiao Ningan sneered, still staring at Commander Qi, and asked, "Or like this."

The palace is waiting in this north wind, and the commander of Qi will ask the queen mother, am I still not the prince? Can I go back to the East Palace? ”

The prince said this, and the commander of Qi naturally didn't dare to say more, not to mention that the prince still had a headache, if he really committed any illness, they would all have to be buried together.

The queen just let them take a fancy to the prince, but didn't let them kill the prince.

It was he who got up and told the coachman, "Listen to the prince." ”

The coachman was busy saying yes, and this party drove in the direction of the imperial city.

"Your Highness is angry, Your Highness sit back, carefully suffer the wind." Li Yuejiao dutifully played a little eunuch.

Xiao Ningan dropped the curtain of the car, sat back in the car, and said to Li Yuejiao: "You are still worthy of the palace, so go back to the East Palace with the palace." ”

Li Yuejiao immediately made a happy look and said, "Yes, I have thanked His Royal Highness the Prince." ”

*

In the Cheng'an Palace of the Imperial City, Empress Zhan held a medicine bowl and sat beside Emperor Jianlong, who fell into a coma again, and listened to her talk about what the prince said last night, and heard her say how Xue Zhen refused to give in, and couldn't help laughing. @·error-free start~~

She asked people to help Emperor Jianlong, and little by little, fed him the medicine prescribed by the imperial doctor.

The medicine is a good medicine, but it is just a hanging, Emperor Jianlong's condition is getting worse day by day, and the time of coma is getting longer day by day.

And now when he woke up again, he was completely speechless, unconscious from the neck down, only his eyes could blink, glaring angrily at Queen Zhan.

But Empress Zhan still fed him medicine every day according to the instructions of the imperial doctor, and when he woke up, she tried to feed him something, and even mercifully allowed Tu Guifei to come and go to see him often, and Tu Guifei cried and cried in front of the sickbed.

But of course, she is optimistic about Tu Guifei, and she must not be allowed to have an accident, nor can she be allowed to pass on the news to the outside.

The husband and wife relationship between them for nearly 30 years, and the true love of sharing weal and woe, is the only thing left.

On the day of Emperor Jianlong's death, her son will ascend the throne and she will become the empress dowager.

She will put Tu Guifei in the palace and raise Xiao Ningchen, the king of Huai, in Beijing, just like raising a livestock, as long as they don't do anything wrong, she will also raise two fools as things.

What's more, Tu's ability to work with Emperor Jianlong was also promoted by her back then.

At that time, their family was exiled to Lingnan, and in order to make a comeback, the husband and wife joined forces to calculate the eldest daughter of the Tu family who was waiting for the word boudoir at that time, and finally returned to the court with the double momentum of their mother's family and the Tu family, and became the winner.

Emperor Jianlong's later preference for Tu Guifei was because he felt guilty; She tolerated Emperor Jianlong's preference for Tu Guifei because of guilt.

It's just that Emperor Jianlong only remembered the guilt of Tu Guifei, but forgot how she accompanied him all the way.

In her life, she was greedy, hateful, and resentful, and she was only in Emperor Jianlong, and had nothing to do with others.

Of course, if they do something wrong, he will definitely take care of them before he dies to ensure that her status as an emperor will be permanent.

"He's really your son," Empress Zhan said while feeding Emperor Jianlong medicine, regardless of whether the comatose emperor could hear it or not, "I just don't know how much he has left, after he ascends to the great treasure, how much will he have left?" ”

The only variable was the blood edict, but Xue Zhen came back alone, which surprised her.

Empress Zhan thought of this morning from last night, and she understood Xue Zhen's intentions:

He wants to use his life in exchange for Li Fu, his wife's family, the eldest princess and the lord of Xiaohui, and live well.

is also affectionate and righteous, but she is hesitant to agree.

The Son of Heaven died unexpectedly, and there must be speculation in the world, so he had to kill a few people to block Youyou's mouth, especially not to let her son be infamous on his back.

Xue Zhen, who received the blood edict of Emperor Jianlong and had military power, no matter how he chose, was destined to be a hidden danger that must be removed.

And the conspiracy of a mortal person, should she step into it?

"Let them be judged." Empress Zhan finally lightly instructed about Xue Zhen, "I really can't try it, let's talk about anything else." ”

Someone agreed to go down, and someone came to report that Commander Qi asked to see him.

Empress Zhan did not summon her immediately, but.

After slowly feeding Emperor Jianlong a bowl of medicine that was good but no longer effective, he let people lower the curtain and block the emperor, who was now hanging by a thread, before ordering the commander of Qi to come in.

"The last general has seen Your Majesty and the Queen Mother." Commander Qi saluted as usual, and then said, "Qi Niangniang, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has returned to the East Palace." ”

Empress Zhan smiled, not angry, just smiled: "Since you want to open it, you should go back." After all, he is the crown prince, and this palace will not embarrass you and wait. ”

"Yes, His Highness also brought the inner eunuch named Xilai back to the East Palace." Commander Qi continued.

Queen Zhan was even more unimpressed, and only said: "It's just a small yellow door, he has to use it to stay by his side." ”

"Yes."

"Go back, tell the prince that when he suddenly came out of the Imperial Immortal Garden, he should know what is wrong, don't see people you shouldn't see, and don't say things you shouldn't say." Empress Zhan told slowly.

Commander Qi's back was sweating, and he responded: "Yes, the last general will obey the order." ”

*

In the East Palace, everything looks like normal from the outside, but when you enter the inside, you are guarded step by step.

As soon as Xiao Ningan returned to the mansion, the first thing he did was to go to the courtyard of the crown princess, but the entrance of the courtyard was three floors inside and three floors outside, and it was full of people.

Because the crown princess's surname is Tu and she is the niece of Tu Guifei, Emperor Jianlong suddenly gave her marriage in person at the winter solstice banquet in the year when Tu Guifei was named a concubine, and did not give Queen Zhan a chance to refuse at all.

Queen Zhan didn't make trouble, but a month later, when Xiao Ning'an was away, she asked people to pour a bowl of medicine, cut off the princess's heirs, and arranged two side concubines for the prince at the same time.

Queen Zhan naturally did not tell the world about the medicine, but she did not hide it from Emperor Jianlong.

Before that, the emperor and queen already had many contradictions, and after that, the contradictions were completely intensified.

If it weren't for Queen Zhan's mother's family, Queen Zhan would also be quite famous among the ministers, but I am afraid that she would have been abolished long ago.

But what Queen Zhan didn't expect was that after that incident, her son actually had only met twice before marriage and had no feelings after marriage, and Tu had true feelings.

This made Empress Zhan regret it very much. @*~~

The lethality of the word guilt, she should have known that at that time she had already made up her mind that the Tu family would never live until the day the prince ascended the throne.

Now Xiao Ningan walked to the door of the princess's courtyard and was immediately stopped.

"Your Royal Highness, the queen said that the crown princess is seriously ill now, and she is afraid that she will be sick, so she asks Her Royal Highness to take the jade body as the priority." The man indifferently repeated Empress Zhan's will.

Xiao Ningan glanced at him, although he had been rejected today, but this time, he did not have another seizure.

The result of having a seizure on his own can only make it more difficult for his wife, or even ......

Died earlier.

Therefore, he just stood at the gate of the courtyard and said loudly inside:

"Ah Jin, I'm fine, you also have to take care of your body."

Only then can we have a future.

In the courtyard, there was no sound at all.

Li Yuejiao followed behind Xiao Ning'an, looking at the courtyard surrounded by death, and always felt that she could hear a woman's low cry.

She married into the Hou Mansion for three years and only met the crown princess twice.

At that time, there were a little bit of beautiful women, but her expression was always timid, and her body was very bad.

Therefore, she saw the prince's two side concubines more often than the prince.

The lord of Xiaohui loves to talk to her so much about the ancient times and the affairs of the palace, and he has never mentioned the crown princess to her.

It was Li Yuejiao who didn't know anything about the woman who was going to become *** in the future.

Until today, when she looked at this situation and Xiao Ning'an's appearance of being turned away, she suddenly felt that she was afraid that the scene of that lady in the East Palace was not as good as her three years in the Hou Mansion.

At least in the three years that she was snubbed by Xue Zhen, her mother-in-law, Lord Xiaohui, really loved her.

The crown princess's surname is Tu, and the queen and Tu Guifei have too deep grievances, Li Yuejiao thought about it, a little sad.

She is obviously innocent, the marriage was given by His Majesty, and the Tu family wants to cling to her, what can she do if she is a daughter in her boudoir?

The power confrontation of the big man, why sacrifice a little woman?

She sighed like this and went to the study with Xiao Ning'an.

End here.

There is no one else, only Xiao Ningan's closest internal supervisor, He Zhong, followed up.

Xiao Ningan was very direct, pointing at Li Yuejiao and saying to He Zhong: "She is Mrs. Hou Shizi of Anyang." ”

Li Yuejiao also smiled and gave her a half-salute.

He Zhong was so shocked that he knelt on the ground, trembling, and did not dare to speak.

"She'll stay here for the next two days, so that no one knows who she is." Xiao Ningan's tone was gentle, "Don't worry, if something happens, it won't be blamed on your head." ”

"Yes, yes, the little one understands." Although He Zhong was terribly afraid, he still kowtowed to the ground, and he should be resolute.

A few days ago, they were all tied up in the Imperial Immortal Garden to threaten the prince, and the prince compromised for the lives of their minions.

That's all, enough for him to repay with his life.

Xiao Ningan didn't care what He Zhong thought, he only asked Li Yuejiao: "Madam, what should you do next?" ”

"Please Your Highness must stay by Your Majesty's side for these two days." Li Yuejiao said, "Please ask Your Highness to sell a flaw again, so that the Queen Mother knows that I am here with Your Highness, and there is still a way to save Your Majesty." But don't be too early, my sister will not be back until after noon tomorrow, so it will be good to make my mother suspicious. ”

Xiao Ningan was stunned: "Why is this?" ”

Li Yuejiao smiled: "It's just a sound to hit the west, just in case." ”。