Chu Yi's guess was not wrong, Chu Tingxiao was indeed very wrong today.

Today is the middle of the month, and according to common sense, the emperor is going to stay in the middle palace and accompany the queen.

However, Chu Tingxiao did not review the recital in the Qianyuan Hall as usual, and then went to the queen's Yonghua Palace in the evening, but went directly to the Yonghua Palace.

I don't know what happened between the emperor and the queen, and after a while, the emperor walked out with an indifferent face, and the father-in-law Zhang who followed next to him didn't dare to come out.

Even, the emperor said "get out" to Luomei, the palace maid who sent him out and was next to the queen.

Frightened, Luomei knelt on the stone slab at the entrance of Yonghua Palace and knelt for a whole hour.

This scene quickly spread in the palace.

It seems that when the emperor went to court, he said that the queen did not go to the queen mother to ask for peace, but he told the queen that the queen mother was happy and quiet, but the emperor gave the queen a face in front of hundreds of civil and military officials.

Actually, the emperor still cares about this.

Today's emperor and the queen mother are not biological mothers and sons, and it is precisely because they are not biological mothers and sons that the emperor is extremely concerned about the queen mother.

Since the emperor ascended the throne, as long as the queen mother is in the palace, he will personally go to ask for peace, rain or shine, if the queen mother is in the palace to worship the Buddha, he will also send letters on the third or fifth day, offering kit kat antiques and other objects to make the queen mother happy.

And now, the queen mother has been back in the palace for five days, and the queen has not gone to ask for peace once, no wonder the emperor is angry.

Husband and wife are one, Dayan governs the country with filial piety, and the emperor pays attention to filial piety, but the queen is so capricious, isn't this a slap in the face of the emperor.

Anyone with a discerning eye knows that the emperor will not go to Yonghua Palace again tonight, even if today is the middle of the month.

After Chu Tingxiao went back, he approved a few books, stood up suddenly, and threw Zhu Pi away.

"I'm going to say hello to the Queen Mother." His tone was heavy, and there was a bit of irritation in his eyes.

"Yes."

As the imperial guard, Xiao Yan followed Chu Tingxiao to the Queen Mother's Yongshou Palace.

"Childe, you just wait here." Gonggong Zhang glanced at the emperor who walked in with a blue face, and said in a low voice.

Xiao Yan nodded, holding his sword, standing in the courtyard of the inner hall of Yongshou Palace, the emperor came to greet the Queen Mother a few days ago, and he was also standing here.

At this time, a gust of wind blew, and a few sycamore leaves fell.

The sky was steep at noon, Xiao Yan looked up, and saw dark clouds stacked on top of each other, accumulating in the gray sky.

It's going to rain.

Xiao Yan stood under the eaves, took out a candy cube from the paper bag in his pocket and threw it into his mouth.

Letting the sweet peach smell melt from between his lips and teeth, he narrowed his eyes, his mood became happy, and a familiar figure suddenly appeared: "Xiao Gongzi." ”

Xiao Yan came back to his senses and slammed the sugar cube: "Drink ice? ”

He remembered that this blue-eyed palace maid was the martial maid beside Chu Yi.

Yin Bing looked at Xiao Yan, his delicate face was expressionless, and said, "Please do something." ”

Xiao Yan subconsciously looked at the open hall door, his heartbeat slowed down by half a beat, and then he straightened his chest, his expression was very indifferent.

Drinking ice here means ...... Chu Yi is also there.

Inside the palace, a copper-colored Pixiu incense burner and a corner of the emperor's bright yellow dragon robe could be faintly seen, but there was no familiar figure.

"Princess Yongning...... In Yongshou Palace? He finally couldn't hold back and asked.

Drink Ice nodded.

Xiao Yan asked again, "What do you want me to do?" ”

Drinking ice said in four words: "Go to Weiyang Palace, take two umbrellas, notify Pillow Xue, and call Feng to come." ”

Do you help them get an umbrella, from the Yang Palace to the Yongshou Palace, the kung fu of three teas, and the phoenix driving in such a few steps, what a squeamish little girl.

Xiao Yan pursed his lips: "Why don't you go in person." ”

Drinking ice: "I, never leave, Ah Yi." ”

She had sworn before that she would never leave the princess too far, and she would usually protect her, but now in Yongshou Palace, a palace and a courtyard, it is already the limit of what ice can accept.

"Boom!"

In the sky, a muffled thunder sounded, and the heavy dark clouds hung even lower, as if they were in contact with the ground.

A hint of anxiety flashed in Drinking Bing's eyes.

The princess doesn't like water, and she doesn't like such thunder, even if she has an umbrella, she doesn't want the princess to be drenched a little, so she wants to call the phoenix.

She can also let the guards next to her do it, but those guards don't run as fast as Xiao Yan, and she is afraid that Chu Yi will suddenly come out, and her princess doesn't like to wait the most.

Xiao Yan saw the emotion in her eyes, didn't ask any more, turned around and stepped out of the courtyard, walking like flying.

"Ayi."

He muttered the title in a low voice.

Drinking ice breathed a sigh of relief, and stood under the eaves, remembering what happened to the princess when she was young.

That year, Chu Tingxiao, who was still the king of Chu, was ordered to send an envoy to Yongguo, and the seven-year-old princess went with him.

A month later, the princess returned to the palace, but she was seriously ill, and since then she has been afraid of water, cold, and her health has become very poor.

At that time, Yin Bing had just been sent to the palace as a secret guard, and did not follow her to Yongguo, so she didn't look at anyone in Yongguo now, not like a good person.

After she remembered this, the guards around the princess were all changed, and the princess, perhaps because she was young and forgetful, or maybe because the experience of hanging by a thread after falling into the water was really bad, gradually forgot about these.

The princess grew up in the love of her brothers, parents, grandmothers and countless others, and she never skimped on her love.

Inside the temple.

After Chu Tingxiao and Empress Dowager Rong finished saying goodbye, they knelt down in the center of the main hall.

Gonggong Zhang told the palace people to retreat, and in the huge Yongshou Palace, only the slowly burning sandalwood in the Pixiu incense burner remained.

A cyan Bodhi landscape screen with a length and width of several zhang was placed behind the Empress Dowager Rong, and Gonggong Zhang couldn't help but look at it twice, but the screen was too tightly blocked, and he couldn't see anything for a while.

Empress Dowager Rong sat on a chair, holding a Buddhist scripture with a blue cover in her hand, and squinted her eyes seriously.

The emperor knelt on the cold ground, his dark eyes were deep, and his face was as heavy as water.

I don't know how long it took, Empress Dowager Rong put down the Buddhist scriptures: "Mingjing, what's the next volume?" ”

Ming Spiegel stepped forward, took the Buddhist scriptures in the hands of the Queen Mother with both hands, opened the cover, and saw the words "The Secret History of the Empress of the Harem, Anonymous" written on it.

Father-in-law Zhang's eyelids twitched, he thought that the Queen Mother was reading Buddhist scriptures, but he didn't expect the Queen Mother to read a book of wild history.

Ming Spiegel said: "Empress Dowager Qi, this book has a long history, and the next volume has been lost. ”

"Alas, it's okay, the content of this book is old, it's all clichés, if it's lost, it's lost, it's still like the merry prince and the pretty nun written by Ning Lu are good-looking, you go get that book for the mourning family." The Queen Mother said.

"Yes." Spiegel respectfully retreated behind the screen.

Chu Tingxiao finally raised his head and said: "Queen Mother, I am here to apologize to the Queen Mother on behalf of the Queen, what the courtiers said today, the Queen Mother must have known, but the Queen Mother did not mean not to come to ask for peace, it's just that she has been sick for the past few days......

"Okay, can't the emperor hear the meaning of the mourning family, when did the mourning family blame the queen?"

The Queen Mother waved her hand, and her tone was helpless: "Get up, the mourning family can't afford to bow down to the emperor." After so many years, doesn't the mourning family know what kind of person the queen is like? When the mourning family saw her, it was like seeing themselves many years ago, how could they blame her for indulging in the beauty of her youth. ”

Just like the queen built the vegetable bed, she also fantasized about the relationship of a couple for a lifetime when she was young, she used to be the queen, but Chu Tingxiao's heart was in the queen, and the heart of Emperor Cheng was never in herself.

Compared with herself, the Queen Mother felt that Chu Tingxiao and Gu Sangsang were already very lucky.

"Don't worry, the mourning family won't blame the queen, the mourning family is talking about those clichés and pretentious incompetents in the court, and the emperor should also take care of it.

Today they dare to impeach the queen for being unfilial, provoke the relationship between the mourning family and the queen, and force you to kneel for the mourning family, so tomorrow, do they want to go to heaven. ”

Empress Dowager Rong's voice was a little higher, and she stretched out a finger and clicked on the book just now.

Chu Tingxiao obediently stood up and sat next to him, his fists clenched and loosened, and said:

"I understand, it's me who thinks of them too well, in the past, I thought they were just pedantic and didn't know how to be flexible, but a few days ago I understood that they were trying to harm Dayan!"

The Emperor recalled the events of that day in the Wolf Garden, and his eyes were deep and deep.

The Queen Mother glanced at the screen, coughed, and said: "Since you understand, why do you have to go to Yonghua Palace to get angry with the queen, in less than half a day, the news of the emperor's discord spread throughout the palace, and even the old woman of the mourning family has heard about it." ”

"I ......"

At the mention of the words "discord between the emperor and queen", Chu Tingxiao pursed his lips, and there was only confusion left in his eyes.

In front of Empress Dowager Rong, he seemed to be a helpless child, but he didn't know whether he should open his heart or not.

He is the emperor, and the emperor cannot have a weakness, and if he really has, he must not let others know.

The Queen Mother looked at such an emperor, and her heart was sour.

The old man sighed, took off the Buddhist beads on his wrist, and beckoned.

Chu Tingxiao's heart shook, he remembered something, stood up, and walked in front of the Queen Mother.

Spiegel placed a small stool next to him.

The emperor's eyes turned red all of a sudden, and he sat down on a small stool and pillowed on Empress Dowager Rong's knees, and Empress Dowager Rong gently patted the emperor's head, just like he had done many years ago.

"The mourning family knows that not everyone can be the emperor, you are the emperor, and the mourning family is not your biological mother, and they can't empathize with you.

But Xiaoxiao, I am your mother, since you were a child, I am your mother, regardless of bloodline, you are my child, with your mother, you don't have to be afraid of anything, and if you have any grievances, you can't tell your mother. ”

The emperor wiped his eyes and said with tears in his eyes: "I, I changed with the queen in order to show those people, but mother, I'm sorry for Sangsang." ”