In the following days, Zhu Houyu began to promote lower-level officials one by one, and began a difficult dispute about his parents' etiquette, Ning Ke saw Zhu Houyu frowning almost every day, and sometimes accompanied him to secretly summon those lower-level officials who were promoted, Ning Ke in order to better help him, also began to secretly read books related to the Ming Dynasty royal family and etiquette, and left the matter of finding cold ice and iron behind, and what she didn't know was that Zhu Houyi knew all these things she did for Zhu Houyi, Zhu Houyi saw it in his eyes, but found that he had a special feeling for Ning Ke。

can't talk about love, but she has to be.

Time flies quickly, and in a blink of an eye, it is the first year of Jiajing (Zhu Houyu ascended the throne and changed the year name to Jiajing), Ning Ke and Zhu Houyu have changed a lot, Ning Ke has now become a slim girl, and Zhu Houyu has also been more mature by the hard tempering of the past year, but it is more incomprehensible, and it is becoming more and more like an emperor.

In the past year, Zhu Houxi has done a lot of practical things for the people and the country. Occasionally, when the two of them go out on patrol, they can hear the praise of the people, Ning Ke knows how much Zhu Houxi has paid for this country, since he ascended the throne, Zhu Houxi has hardly slept well, and often reviews and folds until the early hours of the morning, Ning Ke always feels a little distressed when he looks at it, after all, Zhu Houxi is only a sixteen-year-old boy now.

It's the beginning of spring again, and on this day, Ning Ke is making tea for Zhu Houxi, Zhu Houxi is criticizing and folding, and suddenly said: "I will choose a concubine in another month, and now the palace has begun to get busy for the concubine selection ceremony." ”

Ning Ke was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then smiled lightly: "I know." ”

"This is the first time I have chosen a concubine since I ascended the throne, and I have to set up a queen, what do you think the queen should be?" Zhu Houxi saw that her reaction was flat, and asked casually.

Ning Ke smiled when he heard this, and said, "Then it is natural to be noble and dignified, and to be able to honor the world, what do you think, Your Majesty?" Ning Ke said, handing the brewed tea to Zhu Houyu and looking at Zhu Houyu with a smile.

Hearing this, Zhu Houyu took the tea a little unnaturally and said, "I haven't married a wife yet, how do I know if I've accepted a side room?" As he spoke, Zhu Houyu secretly glanced at Ning Ke beside him.

Ning Ke smiled and said, "There are few people in history who have never married a wife at such an age as the emperor, and the emperor is also special." ”

Zhu Houxi always felt that something was wrong when he heard this, raised his head and glanced at Ning Ke and said, "Why do I feel that you mean to make fun of me in your words?"

Ning Ke smiled and said lightly: "Your Majesty, you think too much, Xian'er is praising you for your hard work in disguise, and you have even forgotten about your life's events!"

Zhu Houxi smiled lightly when he heard this, glanced at Ning Ke and said, "I see that you are really getting bolder." ”

At this time, a eunuch walked in, held a tray of things above his head and knelt down and said: "Meet the emperor, this is the list of this year's draft and the portraits of all the beauties, please take a look at the emperor." ”

When Ning Ke heard this, he walked to the eunuch and took the tray, and Zhu Houxi said lightly: "Go down." When the eunuch heard this, he was blessed again, and he withdrew.

Ning Ke handed the roster and a large stack of portraits in the tray to Zhu Houxi, Zhu Houxi took the roster and flipped through it casually, picked up the portraits and looked at them one by one, Ning Ke also came up to look at them with great interest, and saw that Zhu Houxi looked at the portraits so quickly, almost casually glanced at them, so he hurriedly said: "Look at it slowly! I see a lot of beauties here!"

Zhu Houxi couldn't help but laugh when he heard this, glanced at Ning Ke and said, "Is this now my choice of concubine, or are you choosing a concubine?"

Ning Ke shrank his neck when he heard this, and muttered in a low voice, "Don't I just want to see what the ancient beauties look like......

"What did you say?" said Zhu Houxi, slowing down the speed of looking at the portrait.

"I said I just wanted to see what kind of criteria I could participate in the draft......" Ning Ke said with a pout.

Zhu Houxi was stunned when he heard this, then turned his head to look at Ning Ke and tugged at the corners ......of his mouth and said, "It seems that you are very interested in the draft! I'll let you go too?"

Damn! Ning Ke couldn't help but curse secretly, hurriedly took a big step back, smiled and waved his hand and said: "What's the matter, it's just curious, not interested...... While speaking, he saw Zhu Houxi looking at her with a playful look and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, if you're okay, I'll go down first!"

For a while, the two of them could feel each other's breath when they were close, Ning Ke looked at him in shock, Zhu Houxi looked at Ning Ke seriously and said, "What if I want you to be my queen?"

Ning Ke came back to his senses when he heard this, turned his head and said, "I don't want to be your woman." As soon as the words fell, Ning Ke felt Zhu Houxi's body stiffen, and then Zhu Houyu said lightly: "Why......? Don't like me?"

Ning Ke wanted to break free when she heard this, but Zhu Houxi firmly imprisoned her body, looked at her fixedly, and said, "Answer me." ”

Ning Ke closed his eyes helplessly and took a deep breath, then turned his head to look at Zhu Houxi and said indifferently: "What if I like you?" But I won't be the emperor's woman, because you are the emperor, you will definitely have seventy-two concubines in the three palaces and six courtyards in the future, I don't want to share one of you with so many women, in my opinion, love can't be shared, and the harem has been a war without gunpowder since ancient times, and the intrigue between women is not better than the-for-tat of the court, I don't want to rob you of one with a group of women all day long. ”

Zhu Houyu was silent for a long time when he heard this, Ning Ke felt that the confinement on his waist was gone, so he immediately stood up and stepped aside, at this time, only Zhu Houxi's deep voice sounded: "I know what you mean, you go down." ”

Ning Ke was stunned when he heard this, and then he was blessed, and then turned around and left the imperial study.

Back to the side hall where she lived, Ning Ke's mind was a mess, she did like Zhu Houxi very much, but she just liked it, not love, but these words, Ning Ke would not say to Zhu Houxi, after all, she has not gotten the news of Cold Ice Xuantie yet, in the past year, she has almost been thinking about how to help Zhu Houxi solve the problem of choosing a father, and she has no time to find Cold Ice Xuantie, it seems that she has to hurry up to complete the task, but Ning Ke still plans to help Zhu Houxi solve his biggest problem now.

Just when Ning Ke was worried, Yongchun suddenly trotted in, and when he saw Ning Ke, he grabbed her hand and said coquettishly: "Sister Xian'er, will you accompany me to the Imperial Garden to play?"

Ning Ke pulled the corners of his mouth when he heard this, and said, "Aren't there still those palace maids?"

Yongchun shook his head when he heard this, and pouted: "I don't want them to play with me, I'm bored to death, Sister Xian'er will play with me......" As he spoke, Yongchun pulled Ning Ke's arm with his two paws and shook it.

Ning Ke was so entangled that he couldn't help it, so he hurriedly admitted defeat and said, "Okay, okay, I'll go with you to play......"

Yongchun immediately smiled when he heard this, and hurriedly pulled Ning Ke out, although Ning Ke was helpless, he also let Yongchun go.

The two talked and laughed along the way, Yongchun walked backwards from time to time, Ning Ke was worried that she would bump into someone when she walked like this, but Yongchun didn't care at all, but he didn't expect that something unlucky still happened, and before Ning Ke could speak, Yongchun had already bumped into the Empress Dowager Zhang.

Ning Ke's face immediately changed, he knelt down and lowered his head and said nervously: "I've seen the Queen Mother." ”

Yongchun also realized that he was in trouble, and hurriedly knelt down and lowered his head and said weakly: "Yongchun has seen the Queen Mother, collided with the Queen Mother, and asked the Queen Mother to forgive him." ”

Empress Dowager Zhang glanced at them lightly and said, "Get up, pay attention to your walk in the future." ”

Ning Ke couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he heard this, fortunately it was okay, after standing up, Ning Ke glanced at the legendary Empress Dowager Zhang, and had heard that this was the only queen in history who enjoyed monogamy, which was unprecedented and unprecedented! To be honest, Ning Ke was still quite curious about this Empress Dowager Zhang.

"You are Liu Xian'er, the chief female official beside the emperor, right?" said Empress Dowager Zhang suddenly looked at her.

Ning Ke hurriedly bowed his head and said, "Back to the Queen Mother, yes." ”

Empress Dowager Zhang nodded and said lightly: "Let's go to the Imperial Garden together." ”

Ning Ke was a little strange when he heard this, but he still followed behind Empress Dowager Zhang, and Yongchun immediately followed when he saw this.

The flowers of the Imperial Garden bloom all year round, there are all kinds of varieties, walking in the Imperial Garden, Empress Dowager Zhang suddenly said: "Female Official Liu, can you sing a little song?"

Ning Ke was stunned when he heard this, and he didn't understand why Empress Dowager Zhang suddenly said this, but he still replied honestly: "It will be a little." ”

"How about singing a song and I'll listen to it?" Empress Dowager Zhang's voice was still flat when she heard this.

Ning Ke was a little speechless, and Yongchun was looking at her with expectant eyes, Ning Ke had no choice but to sing: "When is the bright moon, ask the wine to the sky, I don't know what year it is in the heavenly palace, what year is it tonight......"

Ning Ke was singing, Empress Dowager Zhang suddenly turned around and looked at her with a shocked face, Ning Ke couldn't help but stop and said, "Empress Dowager, is there something wrong?"

When Empress Dowager Zhang heard this, she immediately looked at her with an incredible look, and Ning Ke was stared at by her eyes, thinking to herself, is there anything wrong with the song she just sang? Isn't this water tune song head in the Song Dynasty? Could it be that she hasn't heard it?

At this time, I only heard Empress Dowager Zhang say with some excitement: "The 2008 Yanjing Olympics ......"

Ning Ke said smoothly when he heard this: "Liu Huan, me and you?"

As soon as she finished speaking, Ning Ke saw tears of excitement in Empress Dowager Zhang's eyes, and held Ning Ke's hand tightly with both hands, which stunned Yongchun and the other palace maids around her, Ning Ke's heart was also turbulent, and she couldn't calm down for a long time, she didn't expect that she could meet a traverser when she was doing tasks in this world.

Empress Dowager Zhang felt that she was a little rude after being excited, so she waved her hand to let the palace maids take Yongchun to retreat, and then pulled Ning Ke to sit down in front of the stone table, and then said: "I didn't expect to meet fellow villagers here." ”

Ning Ke nodded when he heard this, and said a little stunned: "I didn't expect that there were other traversers here...... Excuse me, when did you cross over?"

Empress Dowager Zhang smiled when she heard the words and said: "My real name is Zhang Yanran, it turned out to be an Internet writer, I crossed over the year it was the 08 Olympic Games, the power switch accidentally sprinkled water and then caused an electric shock, the person who woke up is here, I have been here for more than 30 years...... Tell me about you, how did you get here?"

Ning Ke pulled the corners of his mouth when he heard this, and said with a dry smile: "Actually, I'm a little different from you, I traveled everywhere to do tasks, or I crossed over last year, and then I was taken to the mansion by Zhu Houxi...... "Ning Ke told Zhang Yanran about the crossing, Zhang Yanran nodded, and said: "So that's the case!" and then said with great interest: "Then which dynasties have you traveled to!"

Ning Ke propped his head and said: "It can't be said to be a dynasty, it can only be said to be the world, because there are some things that are not in history at all, such as Huanzhu Gege, the Legend of the Condor Heroes and the Eight Divisions of the Heavenly Dragon, these three worlds are only in novels." ”

Zhang Yanran was interested when she heard this: "That's the same person! That's quite comfortable, do you have to leave after completing the task?"

Ning Ke nodded, and Zhang Yanran immediately grabbed her hand excitedly and said, "Then can you take me with you then?"

Ning Ke was stunned when he heard this, then shook his head and said, "I can't help this, after all, we are all soul crossed......"

Zhang Yanran let go of Ning Ke with some loss when she heard this, and said with a little sadness: "It seems that I am destined to be unable to escape the tragic fate......

Ning Ke was a little strange when he heard this, so he asked: "Don't you mix very well, the only monogamy in ancient times belonged to you and Ming Xiaozong, a model couple, I don't know how many women I envy!"

When Zhang Yanran heard Ming Xiaozong, she sighed with a satisfied expression: "Indeed, Youzhu does treat me very well, but," Zhang Yanran said in a sad tone, "I know my next fate, history is not allowed to be changed." ”

Ning Ke admitted that Zhang Yanran's words were very reasonable, but he still asked very curiously, "Then what is your fate?"

Hearing this, Zhang Yanran glanced at Ning Ke lightly and said: "I know this history very well, next, there will be a five-year-long dispute over the Great Rites, after this, Yang Tinghe will definitely fail and return to his hometown, and then Zhu Houxi will start a series of retaliations against me, first of all, my brother will be convicted and killed, and then I will be completely beaten into the cold palace and ill, and then the funeral will be hasty, don't you say this is not miserable enough?"

Ning Ke was stunned when he heard this, and then said cautiously: "That's not so desolate! It's just that he was sent to the cold palace, although it is indeed painful to be sick, but at least there is a whole corpse to die like this! Just now I thought you would be executed by the five horses divided into corpses!"

Hearing this, Zhang Yanran glared at Ning Ke and said, "Can you speak human words?" and then turned to say: "However, there was really a big event during the Jiajing period, it seems that in the second year after my death, there was a Renyin Palace Change, Zhu Houxi was almost strangled to death by several palace maids with a rope when he slept in the middle of the night, and then all those palace maids were executed by Ling Chi, to be honest, I still want to see what Ling Chi executed, but that is also after my death, you are different, maybe you can see it with your own eyes!"

Ning Ke couldn't help frowning when he heard this, Ling Chi's execution or something was too inhumane, could this be done by Zhu Houxi? But isn't this Zhang Yanran's taste too different, and he actually likes to see this kind of heavy taste.

"I may not be able to reach that time, maybe as soon as the task is completed, I will be teleported back by the system," Ning Ke pouted and said, then looked around, leaned over to Zhang Yanran and asked in a low voice: "By the way, you said that you know this history very well, so how did you tell me how Zhu Houxi died?"

Zhang Yanran held her chin and thought about it when she heard this, and said, "It seems that I took too much pills, got erysipelas, and then burped!"

"He still takes pills?" Ning Ke was a little shocked when he heard this, isn't that why this Zhu Houxi wants to live forever? Ning Ke thought about it and shook his head, forget it, let's ignore him for now, or ask Zhang Yanran first about the whereabouts of the cold Xuantie!

"By the way, have you ever heard of the Ice Darkiron?" Ning Ke asked.

"Cold Ice Xuantie?" Zhang Yanran thought about it when she heard the words and said: "I haven't heard of this......" Ning Ke immediately wilted when he heard it, and at this time, he only heard Zhang Yanran suddenly say as if he remembered something: "Although I haven't heard of this Cold Ice Xuantie, I know where the Cold Ice Xuanjian is!"

"What?Cold Ice Xuanjian?" Ning Ke's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he hurriedly asked, "Then do you know where it is?"

Zhang Yanran said casually when she heard this: "In my husband's imperial mausoleum, that sword is my husband's favorite, and it was buried with his corpse. ”

Ning Ke suddenly wilted when he heard this, inside the Imperial Mausoleum, how can he get in? Didn't the system prompt that he was in the Imperial Palace before? Could it be ...... Ning Ke suddenly looked at Zhang Yanran when he thought about it, and said with a smile on his face for a long time: "Then the Queen Mother, can you help me get that sword?"

Zhang Yanran saw that Ning Ke looked like a dog's leg, and she didn't eat this set at all, and said, "That's my husband's beloved thing, how can I help you get it?"

Ning Ke's heart suddenly cooled when he heard this, and Zhang Yanran smiled and said: "Unless you take me out of here, you won't be able to complete the task, and I won't be able to go back, everyone just stays here together and waits for death......

Ning Ke was a little speechless when she heard this, it turned out that she was still thinking about going back, there was no way, Ning Ke had to ask Xiao Liuzi: "Can I leave with this traverser after I complete the task?"

Xiao Liuzi said: "It depends on the host, after the host completes the task, the system will automatically restore the space and the host's mana, and then the host can take her soul out and bring it into the space, so that she can be taken back." ”

Ning Ke was overjoyed when he heard this, and after telling Zhang Yanran, Zhang Yanran was also very happy, and immediately promised that Ning Ke would definitely find a way to enter the imperial tomb to get the Cold Ice Xuanjian, and then chatted for a while, and when they saw that it was getting late, they said goodbye.