Xiao Qingluan's unhappiness in her heart was real, but her appearance of being so aggrieved that she almost cried was completely pretended. Since the hard one is not good, then the soft one, Xiao Qingluan deliberately pretended to be pitiful everywhere, and hinted at Wei Xun's kindness to him, so that this upright gentleman would be ashamed in his heart, and he would leave the princess's mansion without the face.

Sure enough, this pitiful sentence achieved an unexpected effect, and Wei Xun, who had just been resolute, began to complicate his expression after hearing this sentence, and seemed to be struggling in his heart.

"Okay, I promise the princess to stay in the palace for the time being. ”

"Master Wei, how good it is for you to talk like this earlier, it has caused me to spend so much effort. Come on, prepare bath water for Lord Wei, and prepare a table of good dishes, and my father-in-law will take care of Lord Wei. ”

The northern part of the suburbs of Yingdu is full of mountain ranges, which has the taste of a fairyland outside the sky. This mountain was originally inhabited, but now it is famous. Because there is a boss surnamed Gu who spent a huge amount of money to build a magnificent palace in the middle of this mountain and river, and the luxury is no less than the palace, and this palace is named Damingyue Palace.

It took Gu Liancheng a long time to find this good place near Yingdu, the center of power in the world, and then hired a large number of craftsmen to build his favorite palace in only three months.

This palace was not just built because of Gu Liancheng's pursuit of quality of life, but has an irreplaceable symbolic role, it symbolizes the integration of the Bright Moon Pavilion and the Shadow Guard.

Wanting to completely merge the Bright Moon Pavilion and the Shadow Guard into one is a wish that Mu Xize wanted to complete but failed to complete during his lifetime, and now this wish has been realized in his hands Gu Liancheng, seeing that under his management, the career development of the Great Ming Moon Palace is thriving, Gu Liancheng is often happy in his sleep.

Things in his career have never been difficult for him, but there is one thing that hurts his brain. Before Lin Shicheng died, he fostered his newborn child to an ordinary farming family, Mu Xize couldn't bear to see this child miserable all his life, so he asked Gu Liancheng to take the child out and raise him by their Shadow Guard.

Who would have thought that Mu Xize was a mouthful, here Gu Liancheng took the child back in a hurry, and Mu Xize lived a life of a fairy couple with Ye Ningxiang in Yishui Village very comfortably, and never paid attention to the baby he helped deliver.

Since then, Gu Liancheng has had to take care of his children every day in addition to dealing with matters such as chambers of commerce, espionage, and assassination.

At this moment, Gu Liancheng has been raising the little girl in his arms for seven or eight months, and he has also developed some emotions. On this day, Gu Liancheng held the little guy in his arms intimately as usual, and secretly kissed the cheeks of the little girl from time to time, like a loving father.

Just as Gu Liancheng was intoxicated with the image of a loving father who was both troubled and full of love, he suddenly felt a gust of wind around his neck. He looked up and looked around in shock, but there was no one except for the furniture.

"Who?"

Gu Liancheng originally just asked tentatively, but he didn't expect to hear the answer.

"Liancheng. ”

Gu Liancheng's eyes widened in disbelief and looked in the direction where the voice came from, but he saw a ball of golden-red ashes appearing in front of him, and gradually this mass of ashes converged into a human figure, and then the human form gradually became real, looking like a real person.

The man had gray hair, a rickety back, and a face full of scars, and he could not see his original appearance, but his white hands were full of wrinkles.

"You...... Who is it?"

Gu Liancheng's words revealed a little fear, a little doubt, and his eyes widened and he looked straight at the alien in front of him who didn't seem to be human.

The alien sighed sadly, and continued in an old voice, "I thought you'd recognize me. ”

Gu Liancheng has a lot of friends who drink and meat, but there are few who can really put their hearts into their hearts, and the people who can always talk to him with such kind words, Gu Liancheng only thought about one person after thinking about it.

Then Gu Liancheng carefully looked at the indistinguishable face of the person in front of him, the muscles of his face suddenly twitched violently, and tears poured down uncontrollably.

"Childe, you're Childe, aren't you?"

The man smiled hard and nodded. It turned out that the person who suddenly appeared in front of Gu Liancheng, unrecognizable, and looked like an old man in his seventies and eighties, was actually the first beautiful man who had left the country, the lord of Gu Liancheng, Mu Xize who had already disappeared.

Looking at Mu Xize's appearance like a person who is not a ghost or a ghost now, Gu Liancheng, who has always been strong and has a strong heart, couldn't cry silently, and couldn't even speak.

"Liancheng, I didn't cry like this, what are you crying about, crying again should scare the child!"

Mu Xize's tone was relaxed, even a little ridiculous, which made Gu Liancheng a little embarrassed, wiped away his tears, raised his head and smiled: "Childe." ”

After only saying these two words, Gu Liancheng's whole person suddenly panicked, because Mu Xize in front of him suddenly disappeared.

What pulled Gu Liancheng back from his panic was the sudden ringing of the bell in his ears. This voice seemed to come from a long distance, the sound was faint but had a unique penetrating power, even if it was a hundred miles away, it could still be heard, a total of twenty-seven times, it was the death knell.

According to this specification, it must be the death of a significant person in the royal family. Xiao Qingyu is in his prime, so naturally he will not die, so the only person who died is Xiao Qingyu's imperial grandmother, the Empress Dowager.

An hour later, the originally splendid palace was full of white flags, and the people walking in the palace were all dressed in filial piety clothes, looking hurried, and some were still in tears, as if they were stunned and reluctant for the sudden death of the empress dowager, an old lady who had always been tough.

In the Empress Dowager's bedroom, Xiao Qingyu knelt beside the Empress Dowager's coffin in white, his face was indifferent, and his eyes showed a hint of cunning, as if he was not surprised or sad at the death of his imperial grandmother.

Because everything is under his control, it was he who secretly poisoned his imperial grandmother to die early. Xiao Qingyu never had any good feelings about this royal family who abandoned them in the most difficult days for him and his mother. Since his imperial grandmother can't live with him in peace, then he only has the initiative to control the overall situation in cold blood and ruthlessness.

"Passing on my will, Queen Ye gave birth to the prince and was meritorious, exempted from his guilt, and returned to live in Changle Palace. ”

The eunuch who listened to the decree was first surprised when he heard this, and then lowered his head and didn't dare to say more, until Xiao Qingyu finished speaking, the eunuch answered, bowed and withdrew from the empress dowager's bedroom.

Changle Palace, although Ye Ningxiang only left for a short month, she felt as if she had been away for a long time. Ye Ningxiang dragged her tired and weak body back to sit on the sandalwood chair in the main hall, her hands rubbing the armrests very gently, and a wicked smile hung on the corner of her mouth.

Xiao Qingyu really didn't disappoint her, she didn't drag the mud and water, she didn't hesitate for a minute, and killed her directly with one blow, completely removing the threat she and Xiao Qingyu shared with the Empress Dowager.

Before the Empress Dowager was seriously ill, Ye Ningxiang even suspected Xiao Qingyu, afraid that he would not be able to do such a rebellious thing because of his family affection, but it turned out that Ye Ningxiang was too careful, Xiao Qingyu was still the same Xiao Qingyu as before, the falcon was ruthless and ruthless.

"The Emperor...... The Queen's Mother. ”

Abi, who had just been promoted to be Ye Ningxiang's personal maid, said to Ye Ningxiang in a hesitant manner.

"Abi, just say something directly, this palace doesn't like this kind of spitting and spitting. ”

"It's Ah Hong, Ah Hong committed suicide in the Tingwei prison. ”

Originally, Ye Ningxiang wanted to interrogate Ah Hong immediately after giving birth to the prince, but her body has been extremely weak and the Empress Dowager is seriously ill, and no one else can be found to help Ye Ningxiang interrogate Ah Hong wholeheartedly, so this matter has been stranded.

It's okay if Ah Hong has been safe and sound, as soon as she Ye Ningxiang was released from Qingling Palace, Ah Hong committed suicide, and the time of death was chosen very coincidentally.

Ye Ningxiang hesitated for a moment, then smiled and said, "Ah Hong's death has nothing to do with you, you don't have to be so nervous, okay, you can go down and rest." ”

It was in this moment of hesitation that Ye Ningxiang had already roughly thought of the person who murdered her, her good sister Ye Ninglu. The act of bribing the maidservant to murder the fetus in Ye Ningxiang's womb is too petty, and it is not an act that Feng Jingzhi, a big bureaucrat like Feng Jingzhi who has dominated officialdom for decades, can do, let alone Feng Yun, who has no heart to be a queen.

Her sister and her stepmother have never been friends with her, and now she is the queen and has a noble status, her sister and stepmother must be afraid of being retaliated by her, so they made a dangerous move, and started the idea of murdering the fetus in Ye Ningxiang's womb, so that Ye Ningxiang completely lost the opportunity to make a comeback.

However, now that Ah Hong is dead, it is no longer possible to add the charge of murdering the emperor's heir to Ye Ninglu's head, but it is really not Ye Ningxiang's character to let this matter pass like this.

"Wait, Ah Bi, you go to Tingwei and have Ah Hong's body hang on the city tower, expose the corpse for seven days, as an example, and drag the corpse into the wilderness to feed the dogs after seven days. ”

Ye Ningxiang's words made Abi, who had always been timid and cowardly, feel yin and windy, her hair stood on end, and she nodded in horror.

"Empress Ye, the emperor summoned you to Chongming Palace. ”

As soon as Abi left here, the eunuch sent by Xiao Qingyu rushed to Changle Palace, sweating profusely and looking embarrassed, as if he was very anxious.

Ye Ningxiang sneered, did not do any grooming, and rushed to Chongming Hall with a haggard and pale face.

Obviously it was not the moment of the early dynasty, but the Chongming Hall gathered the civil and military of the Manchu Dynasty, these people were dressed in filial piety clothes, and each had a low face, as if they were dissatisfied. Xiao Qingyu was sitting precariously, his face was cold and serious, which made people shudder.

When Ye Ningxiang walked into the Chongming Palace, he saw Prime Minister Feng Jingzhi kneeling on his knees, with a crying voice in his words, in this hall full of civil and military officials, it has an indelible appeal.

"Your Majesty, Empress Ye angered the ancestors of the royal family, and pardoning Empress Ye like this is disrespectful to the ancestors and abandoning the ancestors. If the emperor insists on this, the country of Rui will suffer the curse of heaven, and then the world of the country will be in danger, and the people of the country will be in danger!