The Queen Mother is the emperor's biological mother, with a dignified position and a ruthless heart, and there is no room for her to refuse. But Liu Ying, who has been the emperor for thirteen years, is no longer the soft-hearted young man who first ascended the throne. Up to now, King Zhao Yin has passed away for more than ten years, and now King Zhao has been replaced by Zhao You, the sixth prince of Emperor Gao, how many people still remember the cause of death of King Zhao Yin? In that year, when His Majesty got up in the morning to go hunting at the school, Empress Dowager Lu sent the eunuch Yang Lishi to enter the Xuanshu Hall with wine to kill King Zhao Yin, and when His Majesty returned to the Xuanshu Palace, only a corpse of King Yin Ruyi was left on the royal couch. His Majesty was so hateful that he couldn't deal with his biological mother, but he personally deployed, arrested Yang Lishi, who poured wine on Liu Ruyi, and personally beheaded him to avenge his younger brother. He loves his wife Empress Zhang deeply, and this thing was hidden from him at first, but he couldn't hide it for a long time after all, and when he knew all the truth, the Queen Mother was his biological mother after all, he couldn't do anything to the Queen Mother, but how could he spare the past for himself who had been unfavorable to Queen Zhang?

…… The light in front of me gradually thinned, as if a faint and colorful color, and looking through the blurred eyes, all objects had a bit of a trance.

Ding Yan closed his eyes tiredly and smiled slightly.

Empress Dowager Lu, today, Empress Zhang...... These three people are in the most honorable position in the Han Dynasty, and there is a way to solve grievances and hatreds that cannot be solved by death, but the innocent self who was involved in it, looking at each other, has become a dead end, and there is no way to live.

She's not willing!

Unwilling to be young, buried in this vast Weiyang Palace, and died hard; A man who is unwilling to fall in love with each other falls in love with another woman, and can no longer see his own waiting; Unwilling to be this brilliant life, he has not yet repaid the kindness of his parents, the beautiful south wind of his hometown Lantian, and the golden wheat color in his memory. The beauty of immaculate purity is never going back - but if this is already the case, what other way can she have except to do everything to earn a way out for Lantian's family?

"Queen Mother," Ding Yan said softly, his voice with a sarcastic sneer, "this tunnel leads in all directions, and no one knows all the paths except the Queen Mother." "I don't know where this yellow door came from. But looking at his actions, his accomplices are by no means too many, and the tunnels are endless. With a bit of luck, you might be able to find an exit. "If you are lucky enough to get out alive," she said, turning her head tiredly, "I would like to remember the grace of my concubine to save me today." Let's help the concubine take care of Xiaoya. ”

"Ahh

A hoarse exclamation came from the door of the stone chamber.

Zhang Yan and Ding Yan turned their heads at the same time, and saw the mute girl standing at the corner of the tunnel, holding a lantern in one hand and covering her mouth with the other, looking at the eunuchs who were dead on the ground and the blood all over the ground in horror. Her eyes widened - but she had not seen Ding Yu come up for a long time, and she had the courage to walk along the tunnel by herself, but she had walked a few steps. I saw the scene here.

The skin on Ding Yan's body tensed slightly, and when he saw clearly that there was only a dumb girl, he relaxed again and smiled very kindly at the dumb girl, "Xiaoya." Don't be afraid. ”

"Come here."

The horror of the mute girl gradually quieted down in Ding Yan's soothing smile, as if it was really as Ding Yan's smile suggested. The corpse of the eunuch lying on the ground and the dagger inserted in Ding Yan's chest were regarded as ordinary things, and he approached step by step through the blood all over the ground, and squatted in front of Ding Yan obediently, like a gentle and peaceful child.

Ding Yan stretched out his hand with difficulty, stroked the mute girl's supple black silk, and said with pity on his face, "Xiaoya is a good child, over the years, my master has always wanted to do something for her, but he didn't help her much, and now that I'm gone, please be considerate and help take care of her." Hey, since you have a princess, I think you can understand her......"

"Zhang Yan, let's go."

She put down her hand, said in a resolute tone, and the expression on her face turned to loneliness.

"But," Zhang Yan's heart was sour and soft, looking at her increasingly dull and transparent face, "You are ...... now"

"If you don't leave, will you send me to the end?" Ding Yan's voice revealed a kind of anger,

"Zhang Yan, do you know how jealous I am of you?"

What I have longed for all my life lies quietly in your hands. When a person is enjoying a gluttonous meal, while another person who is hungry and cold and has nothing is watching with a trembling body, you know, how uncomfortable it is to gnaw at the soul of loneliness?

A little tear flashed in Ding Yan's moist eyes.

"At this time, if you don't leave, do you still have to wait to be caught back by Lou Wei's gang and let him hold your body and cry bitterly?"

Zhang Yan gritted her teeth, no longer hesitated, got up and ran away in the opposite direction to the Zengcheng Palace, turned around at the corner of the first tunnel she left, and looked at the dumb girl's ignorant company, Ding Yan lay quietly, his face gradually revealed a blue and white color, and he couldn't distinguish sorrow and joy in his heart for a while.

DING Yan,

I don't like you because you're the woman my husband used to be.

You won't like me either, because I'm the woman who robbed you of the man.

However, in this Weiyang maze, what happens all the time, and what is finally revealed, is like the tunnels that extend in all directions under this Weiyang Palace, and there is no place to return.

In the end, when I encountered a life-and-death crisis, it was you who stepped forward to save me.

And I, at this moment, owes you more than a life?

This is not as big as the Yang Palace, so big that the tunnels built on it are intertwined into a labyrinth, and people walk in it, distinguishing the unknown direction.

This Weiyang Palace is so small, small, it can't accommodate the hearts of two women.

The cramped tunnels extend out from the feet, the roads are bifurcated, I don't know the end, Zhang Yan is deep and shallow in the underground palace rushing quickly, the tattered cotton clothes on the body are still stained with blood, the previous terrifying memories seem to be attached to it, lingering, every time I think of it inadvertently, there is a layer of goosebumps, Zhang Yan simply threw it, looked down at the thin palace clothes on the body, although it was also torn and cracked a few times, but tidying up, there are still people. Every passage that stretched into the darkness looked like a monster in the dark sky, opening its hideous mouth, waiting for the prey to crash in and devour everything. The cold wind blew along the way it came, hitting the hot body, and it seemed that there was no shivering. Instead, there is a feeling of coolness. Even the previous pain in the ankle was not felt much at this moment.

It was as if her spirit was in a morbid euphoria at the moment, and it was a wonderful feeling, and she knew that it was not normal, but she did not want to stop it.

Just because, her heart is still beating; She will also love deeply.

She didn't know what awaited her at the next corner of the tunnel: a sharp bayonet or her husband's affectionate eyes. What awaits her above the future of fate: is it the wind and rain sword that is forced to force each other, or the warmth of the veins in the Jiaofang Palace? But. She couldn't stay where she was, she had to run forward to soothe her beating heart.

I love you.

Liu Ying.

I want to get out of here alive.

I don't want all the horrible, painful, filthy memories, I just want to keep them behind. Don't look back anymore. I just want to run into your arms and no longer see all the wind and rain sorrows.

Zhang Yan heard the whistling wind passing through her body.

This unknown tunnel is certainly disgusting and dazed, but above it, is Lang Lang's Weiyang Palace. In Weiyang Palace, there is a husband who loves him deeply, and a lovely and sick daughter. There are loyal palace people, she still has a brilliant future, and she still wants to bathe in the sun. wants to wrap the lingering green silk around Liu Ying's fingertips, wants to hug her beloved daughter Liu Zhi, and kisses her cheek......

She still has too many dreams to come true.

Her life is just over half of her wish. We've just started. She couldn't just give up, she really didn't want to spend her young life on her own. Buried in this dark and lightless tomb.

Zhang Yan closed her eyes, feeling the direction of the wind blowing in the tunnel.

The tunnel is located under the Weiyang Palace, although it extends in all directions, the road is like a labyrinth, and the direction is not discerned, but in the end, it is built by adhering to the Weiyang Palace on the ground. Previously, she was in the direction of the Zengcheng Hall in the Ye Ting, although she had walked a distance in order to confuse the Lou Yu, but later she turned back, and Ding Yan and the dumb girl could easily find herself, which means that she is not far from the Zengcheng Palace.

Coming out of the Yeting Palace, a little to the southeast, is the Jiaofang Palace; One hundred and fifty meters further south, there is the Xuanmuro Hall of the front hall.

Xuan Room,

It's where Liu Ying is.

I really wanted to go back to my uncle. However, every road in this tunnel is the same, and I can't tell the direction, what should I do?

Zhang Yan stood in the tunnel with her eyes closed for a while, and heard the sound of the wind blowing from the depths of the tunnel. Emperor Gao did Weiyang Palace, and what was the ultimate purpose was no longer available. But she is lost in this labyrinthine city, not knowing the way back, but she never gives up hope of leaving.

The sound of flowing water came out from the background of the wind, "Tick, tick-tock-"

Zhang Yan opened her eyes.

"Tick, tick-tock—"

The sound of water droplets seems to be coming from the left-hand side.

Zhang Yan walked all the way along the earthen wall of the tunnel, turned a small corner, and the sound of water droplets falling on the ground became clearer and clearer. When I looked up, I saw that in a corner of the tunnel, water droplets seeped out of the dirt on the top, and fell, drop, drop, ticking.

In the ninth year of the Han Dynasty, Yang Chengyan, the chief eunuch, was extended to make Weiyang Palace, leading Weishui into the palace, making Cangchi, flowing from southwest to northeast, passing through Changle Palace, out of Chang'an City, and finally flowing into Weishui.

The water droplets fell in the air in a straight line and fell to the ground, but strangely not perpendicular to the ground, but at an angle.

Weiyang Palace is built according to the topography of Longshou Mountain, high in the west and low in the east, if this tunnel is excavated in that year, it is likely to follow such a topography. The water fall is affected by gravity and should be absolutely perpendicular, so that the side with the greater angle to the water drop line should be east, and vice versa.

And she looked up in the east-west direction she judged, and suddenly saw that in the maze of tunnels, a tunnel stretched straight out, pointing straight to the south.

……

The huge honey candle flame made a slight "flutter" sound, and shook gently in the Xuanshu hall.

"Everyone," Han Changliu burst into tears, looking at Liu Ying, who was sitting in the hall and describing himself as haggard, "I beg you, you haven't slept well for a few days, although the queen wants to find it, but your body also needs to be taken care of!" ”

"Even if it is Empress Zhang, I would never want you to torture yourself like this. If you go on like this, if Empress Zhang knows, won't she feel sorry for you? ”

Liu Ying looked at the direction of the honey candle flame flickering, and a helpless and bitter smile appeared on her lips, "I also want to rest, but I can't sleep well." ”

In the Xuanmuro hall, a green curtain hangs down, dividing the large hall into several spaces. Liu Ying rubbed his forehead tiredly, on the six-legged screen of the dark lacquer in the hall, the pattern of Gaozu cutting the white snake was painted, the lines were smooth, vibrant, and both form and spirit. The young emperor sat behind the long case of golden silk nanmu in a dark black robe, raised his head, and looked at the solemn Xuan room, and the tip of the halberd of Lang Wei outside the Xuan Chamber. Under the Xuanshu Palace, the front hall of Weiyang was unfolded, and the entire Han Empire was vibrant, but only the young masters of this palace and the country gradually became haggard in the thoughts of his wife day after day.

"As soon as I closed my eyes, it was as if I saw Ah Yan."

And she was thin, haggard and dazed, only a pair of shining apricot kernel-shaped eyes, still retaining this vitality, looking out of the dark background, like a bright lamp, begging for help.

"How can I sleep like this?"

"But," Han Changliu almost burst into tears, "like this, how can you hold on?" If you also fall, who will look for the queen? ”

"It's time for me to cheer up." Liu Ying woke up to his suggestion, said abruptly, patted his temples, sat up straight, and asked, "Is there any movement from Ning Jiong?" ”

Han Changliu sighed and said dejectedly, "So that everyone can know that the little lady of the Lu family has been married three days ago, and the Empress Dowager Lu," he hesitated for a moment, "There is news from the Changle Palace, these days, the Empress Dowager often stays alone in the dormitory, and no one is seen." It's just that in normal times, he seems to be restless, and his mood is particularly irritable. ”

"Didn't the queen mother come out of the Changxin Palace?" Liu Ying asked.

Han Changliu could hardly bear to answer, but he couldn't hide it after all, so he could only say, "-No." ”

Liu Ying suppressed the disappointment in her heart, leaned back to the person behind her, and muttered, "Among them, there must be something I neglected." I'm going to have to think about it again. ”

Han Changliu was speechless, looking at the anxious Liu Ying, and his heart was excited. I held back the doubts in my heart and didn't dare to ask.

Is Empress Zhang really in the hands of Empress Dowager Lu?

The so-called mother-child connection. The queen mother's favorite is the emperor, since she knows that the emperor is now restless and restless for Empress Zhang, as a mother, how can she bear not to inform the emperor of Zhang Yan's whereabouts?

Or, the Queen Mother is ruthless, and Empress Zhang was killed as early as the beginning of falling into her hands, and it is precisely because of this that even though she regrets it in her heart, she will never be able to hand over a Empress Zhang to the emperor again?

Liu Ying suddenly turned his head slightly, Han Changliu noticed it, so he asked, "Everyone, what's wrong?" ”

"I seem to be ......" Liu Yingqian patrolled her eyes, looking around the Xuanshu Palace, "I heard Ah Yan's cry." ”

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I originally wanted to finish writing Lingxi in one chapter. As a result, the first draft was pulled out and looked at it, more than 7,000 words, forget it, it is divided into two chapters.

Lingxi (below) was sent out on Monday.