Liu Ying stiffened slightly, and said with a smile, "It turned out to be for the queen mother." He withdrew his hand, and instantly hated Guan Sheng in his heart.

Zhang Yan was also quite embarrassed.

No matter how good her reasons are, when her husband thinks that he is sewing things for him, and his heart is full of tenderness and sweetness, revealing it is actually for another person, even if that person is his mother, this embarrassment will definitely not feel so good.

"I ......" Zhang Yan was at a loss for a moment, "Do you dislike my craft?" "Quite annoyed, embarrassed, and angry, so he simply started first to change the topic.

"What's going on?" Liu Ying flatly denied it.

……

The bronze beast head incense burner in the Jiaofang hall is burning, diffusing a light sweet pine fragrance. The vermilion curtain hung down, and the hanging figure stretched very long.

"Why did you suddenly remember to make socks for the queen mother?"

"It's nothing,"

Zhang Yan lowered her head and said softly, "It's just that yesterday I heard that the queen mother disliked the new socks from the weaving room and felt like her feet were pricked, so she suddenly moved her mind." I want to make a pair of finely pounded kudzu socks for the queen mother. ”

"I don't know, will the queen mother like it?"

There was a faint worry between his eyebrows, and when he fell into Liu Ying's eyes, his heart suddenly softened, and he felt a throbbing pain similar to a thin thread.

That bright and sincere girl, dare to speak out boldly when she loves it, and Ah Yan, who will turn around and leave when she is sad, the woman he loves with all her heart, by his side, is a little dark, and she becomes a source of gains and losses. And even if he has the power of the emperor and is full of love and love, he can't protect Ah Yan under his wings, and he has always smiled brightly, as always.

He tried to reassure her, "Everything is going to be fine." ”

But after doing it, I finally felt that the language was too weak, and sighed in my heart. Stretched out his hand to hug his wife's slender waist and whispered in her ear, "Ah Yan, no matter what, I will be by your side." ”

After a while, Zhang Yanfang let out a soft "um" and nodded.

Relaxing her body and pillowing it in Liu Ying's arms, Zhang Yan closed her eyes, feeling a little sad and a little natural sigh. Life is always full of compromises. When we are young, we can still use the excuse of being young to avoid some, and when it comes to taking on the responsibilities of the family, who has not restrained the edges and corners. A little aggrieved and sincere, to be a mellow self in the eyes of everyone?

After a long time, Liu Ying raised her head, stared at Ah Yan's beautiful face, and swept the sauce-colored flowers she was embroidering in her hand. Remembering the joy and embarrassment of being the right person that he had mistakenly thought, he couldn't help the resentment in his heart after all, snorted, took her bright earlobe, and gently nibbled on it.

"Oops," Zhang Yan tickled. Laughing in his arms,

"What do you do?"

"Hmph," Liu Ying's words were extremely light. "Little without conscience." Turning his head slightly, "I don't use needlework on weekdays, so it's easy to see you sewing for the first time, but it's not for me." ”

Zhang Yan turned his head in his arms and saw him turn his head sideways. Only half of the cheeks are exposed, and a faint layer of redness appears on the wheat skin. Amazed.

You must know that she has been with Liu Ying for so many years, and she is used to seeing Liu Ying's gentle and solemn, joyful and sad appearance, no matter what, she can't get rid of a calm state, but she has never seen a child's temper like he does today. Angry and funny, in the novelty and somehow, gushing out of a kind of honey, my heart moved slightly, and suddenly remembered that I had heard someone say: every husband is a father, husband, son three identities of the complex, in the need to treat him as a husband's affection, sometimes, you also need to respect him like a father; Sometimes, you need to be coaxed like a son.

I liked it in my heart, and a soft color appeared in my eyebrows, and he reached out to hold Liu Ying's shoulder, and used his strength to stand up in his arms, and said, "Okay." She smiled and kissed him on the corner of the lips. Before he could react, he stepped back and whispered,

"I'm not good at my craft, you know. If you really don't dislike it, when I send these foot socks out, I don't have the courage to do the outer clothes, sew a middle coat for you, and when the time comes, you will only wear them in my Jiaofang Palace, and you are not allowed to wear them out of the palace, okay? ”

The apricot eyes were slightly curved, and the voice was delicate, which made Liu Ying glare, but she couldn't help but laugh, but Liu Ying's shame and faint joy could be seen from her eyes.

"It's better to remember."

……

On the second day, she got up from the bed, Shi Nan and Fuyao waited for her to freshen up, and suddenly heard Mingfeng come forward and said respectfully, "Queen Mother, a few days ago, the slave maid's family entrusted someone to bring a letter to the slave maid, saying that she came to Chang'an to see me recently, and the slave maid wanted to ask for leave to go out of the palace to visit them today. ”

Zhang Yan took a sip of the golden flower rouge and smiled indifferently, "Since that's the case, you can go out." ”

Ming Feng showed a grateful look on his face, and bowed respectfully, "Thank you, Queen Mother." ”

"I won't go to the other place except to go to Changle Palace to say hello to the Queen Mother today." Zhang Yan got up and put on a turmeric ice snow tuanhua short waist, "You can stay outside the palace for a while, and you can come back before the palace gate is lowered at night." ”

Empress Zhang is used to being considerate to the palace people around her. Ming Feng nodded, got up and said, "Then, the slave maid will leave the palace." ”

"Niangniang," Tu Yu asked, wrapping the kudzu stockings she had embroidered yesterday in a yellow silk silk, "do you want to take these socks to Changle Palace?" ”

Zhang Yan's face couldn't help but turn red.

Speaking of which, for these pair of foot socks, she has really put in twelve points of effort, but the female red can't be faked, she doesn't do much on weekdays, and the stitch embroidery marks on the socks are always lacking. I was not embarrassed to take it out, and said, "Let's put it down, let's talk about it next time." ”

"No."

The bun is like a cloud, and the six pomegranate red brocade skirts are dragged to the ankles, and a golden phoenix and five beads on the side of the bun are shaking, and Zhang Yan is more and more charming. Just as Liu Ying came back from the morning exercise in the school field, she planned to go back to the Jiaofang Palace to change her court clothes and go to court, and when she saw the girl coming out of the inner hall, her phoenix eyes flashed with amazement.

Zhang Yan's waist is extremely thin, with a waist and children with lines, and the collar and clothes are pinched with red teeth, and the subtle snow velvet pattern, and a hand-painted orchid at the corner of the skirt, colorful and vulgar, with a touch of soft childishness in the glamorous, fresh and tender like a sea of spring flowers, like Song Wei many years ago. When she had just entered Weiyang Palace for two or three years, she was pure and delicate with the unique delicacy of a girl.

"Your Majesty is back." Zhang Yan's apricot eyes flashed with a smile, and she greeted her with a gentle voice.

"Hmm." He smiled in response, couldn't help but shake her hand, and instructed, "Be careful when you go out." "Affectionately.

Today is the right day to meet Changle Palace, over the years, although Zhang Yan has a lot of small temperament in getting along with husband and wife, but when facing Empress Lu. It has always been very sincere in terms of etiquette.

Zhang Yan had already walked to the gate of the palace, turned around and smiled, "Got it." Uncle. The last two words came out silently, only the shape of the mouth, the expression was a little playful, the eyebrows were like distant mountains, and the eyes were like autumn water.

This scene. In the months that followed, it remained in Liu Ying's heart, constantly thinking about it, and could not fade.

——On the second day of the winter and November holidays, Empress Zhang went to Changle Palace and returned at noon. The palace man Zhao Shi Tu. Yao Shi Nan and Du Fuyao accompanied each other, and Feng Yuan walked to the top of the two palaces connected to the double road. Suddenly, more than a dozen black-clothed masked assassins came out of nowhere, and the guards and eunuchs were shocked, and stepped forward to fight with the assassins. Persuaded, "Queen Mother." With guards in front of us, we should be fine. But it's really a bit dangerous, let's go back to Changle Palace first, right? ”

Zhang Yan frowned, nodded, and said, "It's okay." Then he abandoned the step, turned back from the original road, and hurriedly passed through two-thirds of the way of the road, when he suddenly heard a "boom", the Zhuguan road broke from it, and the pedestrians on the Zhangtai Avenue under it exclaimed, only to see the masonry and dust of the road falling from the air countless times, and the armored guards and the black-clothed assassins could not stand on their feet and fell......

Tu Yu endured the pain in her heart, got up from the dust, and shouted urgently, "Niangniang? "Zhangtai Avenue is a mess, people are everywhere, where can I see Zhang Yan's trace?

……

Zishuang's pen snapped in her hand, Liu Ying got up in shock, her big sleeves swayed in an arc with the wind, and she still didn't dare to believe it, "What did you say?" Say it again. ”

"Back to Your Majesty," the little yellow door said again tremblingly, "...... The assassin assassinated, the road collapsed, and Empress Zhang somehow disappeared without a trace. ”

Liu Ying's eyes darkened.

"Your Majesty." Everyone around him exclaimed, as if several people rushed out and wanted to hold him.

He barely held on, gritted his teeth and said, "Ling Langzhong ordered Ning Jiong to take Lang Wei to search beside the crashed road, no matter what else, it is important to find the queen first." ”

"I'm going to check it out myself."

The nine-zhang-wide Zhangtai Avenue was in shambles, and the Southern Army guarded the crossings on both sides to prevent pedestrians from entering or leaving. On the broad royal road, only the road that crossed Changle and the second palace of Weiyang in the past has become a ruined wasteland. The people of Jiaofang Palace at the scene turned pale with shock, sobbing slightly, and waited in place.

"What the hell is going on?" Liu Ying asked, a handsome face was already a miserable white.

"Everyone,"

When Tu Yu saw the emperor, it was like seeing a savior, and tears fell as soon as she brushed up, "The slaves and maids don't know what's going on." ”

"Everything was fine at that time, the queen's phoenix chariot came back from Changxin Palace as before, and walked to the center of the compound road, and I don't know what happened, a group of black-clothed assassins came out. Fortunately, there were guards and eunuchs who stepped forward to resist, and the slaves and maids escorted the queen back to Changle Palace. When the slave and maid stood up, they looked for the queen again, but they couldn't find it. ”

Due to the urgency of the situation, the earth and rocks of the road have not been cleared. Liu Yingli was in the place where Zhang Yan disappeared, with her hands behind her back, covered by her sleeves, and her buckle was deadly white.

The door of Changle Xique Palace was opened, and Empress Dowager Lu's steps also came out of it, and asked majestically, "What's going on here?" ”

The soldiers and palace people of the Manchu Road all bowed down, "See the Queen Mother, the Queen Mother is happy and happy!" ”

Empress Lu raised her eyebrows and sneered, "If something like this happens, how can this palace still be happy?" The two palaces are the most noble and well-guarded places in the Han Dynasty, and in the two palaces, there are still unknown assassins who dare to assassinate, if they don't track it down to the end, how can it be done? Ning Jiong,"

Lang Zhong ordered Ning Jiong to take a step forward and bow, "Weichen is here." ”

"If you can't track it down, don't be a good one."

Ning Jiong raised his head from the ground, his eyes shot out of impressive color, and he raised his head and said, "No." ”

Liu Ying held back the overturning emotions in her heart, turned her head to look at Lu Hou and said, "Don't worry, the queen mother, this matter will be investigated to the end." He said word by word, as if he was promised, and seemed to be convincing himself, his phoenix eyes were dark, and his voice showed a faint trend. He raised his voice and said, "Xuan will be the chief eunuch." ”

"No."

There was a small yellow gate beside him to lead the order, and after a while, Du Qi, the current general master craftsman, stepped forward through the halberd guard of the southern army, and bowed in front of the emperor and the queen mother, "Weichen see Your Majesty." ”

"Du Qing,"

Liu Ying raised her eyes, looked at the courtier in front of her and asked, "Weiyang, the second palace of Changle was built by the general as a supervisor in the early years of the previous Yuan Dynasty, and now it is suddenly damaged, what is the reason?" ”

After such a major event, the emperor's face looked very bad, Du Qi refused to bear such a burden, and said with his head held high, "Your Majesty, I will be conscientious and conscientious as a prisoner, and there is no problem." These two palaces have been in operation for more than ten years, and there is usually no problem, this time there is no accident, the responsibility is not to be a prison, someone must have done it deliberately. ”

"Master Du has to think clearly?" Lu Hou said leisurely, "This Weiyang Changle Second Palace is guarded by guards, how can anyone destroy the Restoration Road under such strict protection?" ”

Cold sweat oozed from Du Qi's forehead, and he knocked his head very low, not daring to raise it, but said, "The minister will be a prisoner, and he doesn't dare to say anything about the palace guards." Maybe someone did it, or maybe it was because the guards and the Assassins had damaged the load-bearing pillars. But Shaofu only inspected the two palaces at the end of last year, and it is absolutely impossible for this resumption of problems after only one or two months. ”

Liu Ying stared at him and suddenly asked, "If you find the most experienced craftsman, what is the problem that can be checked?" ”

Du Qi raised his head, looked at the ruins of the compound road on the Wangzhangtai Road, and said dejectedly, "This compound road is volleyed in the air, and the damage is very complete, the masonry pillars fell on the road, I am afraid that there have been some traces, and they are all destroyed, and the minister is incompetent." ”

The sky in Chang'an City was blue, and occasionally a white cloud floated, Liu Ying took a deep breath and looked up at the sky.

It has only been half an hour since this incident happened. It was about his wife's safety, and he couldn't panic anymore, and he had to think clearly. Speaking of which, the protection of the two palaces is not intimate, if the assassin has the shadow of the princes and kings, he should immediately send a large number of soldiers to search for Ah Yan's whereabouts, and the sooner Ah Yan is found, the better.

But if he ......, he'll have to think about what to do.

Speaking of which, Ah Yan's position as queen did not affect the interests of too many people, and she had a deep relationship with herself, which was also a harem affair after all, and had nothing to do with the previous dynasty. There are not many people who can deal with Ah Yan in such a decisive and dangerous way; And there are even fewer people who can do it in the two houses.

Liu Ying took a deep breath again.

It has been ten years since he ascended the throne, and he is no longer the new emperor who is powerless to protect his younger brother in the Weiyang Palace. At the beginning, the queen mother was able to drive straight into the killing of Ruyi, but now, what is presented in front of her is a headless public case, although it is not without traces, but at least it shows that people who come cannot direct their own sharp anger.

If there is a game of chess in front of him, he needs to use his greatest strength to figure out how to make a move. A little carelessness overturned. And if his bet is Ah Yan, he can't afford to lose at all.