Under the stars.

"Hold me. The empress said softly.

"Hmm. Li Ran nodded shyly, and then put his head into her chest.

"I told you to hold me, are you a child?" the empress said with her cheeks slightly red, looking at the young man in her arms.

"I'm sorry, Your Majesty's aura is too strong, so ......" Li Ran smiled awkwardly, and then stretched out his long arms and took the empress into his arms.

"Li Ran, sing a song for me, poetry is fine, will you?"

The empress snuggled in the arms of the little lover, like a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl who had just fallen in love, and her phoenix eyes reflected the stars, bright and infinite.

"Well...... Naturally, the minister will. Li Ran thought about it, looked at her eyes, and really remembered a song, and sang softly:

"I want to take you to see the starry sky."

"I want to tell you out loud that I'm obsessed with you. 」

"The past is in a hurry, you will always be moved, I only want you for the rest of my life."

"For the rest of your life, the winter snow is you, the spring is you, the summer rain is you, the autumn yellow is your four seasons, and the warmth is caused by your gaze......

"It's your ....... too."

"Your Majesty, why are you crying?"

Singing the last three words, Li Ran found that the empress's eyes were red.

"Li Ran, do you know, since I met you, I feel that I have a lot more expectations for the future, which I have never had before, it is his ......" Speaking of this, the empress suddenly stopped, as if remembering some past events that she didn't want to face.

Li Ran was so keen, of course he knew that the empress remembered that man, Murong Yu.

"The most regrettable thing in Your Majesty's life is that he did not step into this world earlier and was preempted by others. Li Ran said sincerely.

"What do you mean by that, could it be that before you were born, you were still living in other places?" said the empress with a wry smile, trying to calm her emotions.

Li Ran hurriedly said: "Of course not, Chen just feels very sorry that he was not born fifteen years old earlier and participated in your past in time, otherwise, I guarantee that you will be ten thousand times happier than now." ”

"Flim Flam. The empress said a little coquettishly.

"No, it's true. Li Ran stroked her long hair and said word by word: "But it's not too late, my majesty." ”

"It's late. ”

The empress said lonely: "I have Gu poison in my body, and there is not much time left, and you ......"

She looked at the handsome young man in front of her: "Immortal cultivators are immortal, aren't they? In your long life in the future, I will only be a passing passerby." ”

"No, believe me, my Majesty. Li Ran hugged her tightly, "But in this life, I will make you as immortal as me, just like the song just now, I want to take you to see the more distant starry sky, and for the rest of your life, a long river of time, I will also cross it hand in hand with you——"

"And the first step is to heal your Gu poison. ”

Li Ran said with blazing eyes: "If my calculation is correct, this time Your Majesty has Xie Wushuang's private fleet, and wait for another month, when the East China Sea warships are ready, it will be the time for my Daxuan Empire to go out to the East China Sea and pacify Dongying, and at that time, the minister will include the Thirty-two Immortal Islands of Penglai into the territory of the imperial court, and pour all the thousand-year-old elixir above to refine the elixir of Gu poison for you." ”

Burst.

The Empress suddenly smiled.

"Could it be that the minister guessed wrong?" Li Ran frowned slightly.

"No, you Li Guoshi is wise and intelligent, how can you guess wrong. ”

The Empress lay in his arms and said with a light smile: "You just said that in a month, my warship will be ready to be cast, which means that you have sent your brother to secretly explore my secret shipbuilding base on the edge of the East China Sea, right?"

Li Ran thought quickly for a moment and said, "Yes." ”

Of course, he won't say it, the fact is that Li Huan, the kid, was not found at all, and in the end, it was Wang Zhong, the deputy director of the East Factory, who found out the news.

"Li Ran, you are becoming more and more ambitious now. ”

After the empress finished with a smile, she covered his mouth with her jade fingers, "You don't have to be in a hurry to deny it, you must have known something and seen something during the trip to Smoke Island, right?"

Li Ran was silent.

"If you were lazy and leisurely before, you would definitely not use the name of Wan'er in Leiyun Prefecture to eliminate violence and peace, collect people's hearts, and you would not associate with people like Zhang Ningfu, right?" The empress was slightly excited.

Li Ran was still silent, looking at her quietly.

At this time, it is wrong to say more, in the face of such a wise generation of empresses, this kind of face-to-face confrontation will come sooner or later, and he has been prepared.

The empress pursed her lips, sat up from his arms, and said with a stunned gaze: "So...... Everything you did was just in case, for self-preservation, and you were worried that if you couldn't cure my Gu poison, the eldest princess would succeed to the throne as emperor, it would be bad for you and your family, right?"

"That's how I used to think. Li Ran said calmly: "But not now." ”

"Oh?" the empress's phoenix eyes were cold: "I am not an ordinary woman you can understand, I am not afraid of any betrayal in this life, and I will never rely on anyone, do you understand?"

"I understand. Li Ran's expression was still calm: "So, can you let the minister explain now?"

This time it was the empress's turn to be silent.

Li Ran said: "First, the minister has no interest in dominating the world, and all I am interested in is you, my Heavenly Maiden." ”

The Empress bowed her head, "Go on." ”

"Second, the reason why I showed great mercy in Leiyun Prefecture and saved those people was completely for the sake of Princess Wan'er's face, you know, she is kind in her heart, and the minister feels sorry for her. Li Ran sighed.

"Wan'er......" The empress raised her head and asked inexplicably: "Do you like Princess Wan'er?"

Hearing this, he was as calm as Li Ran, his heart was shocked, and he was almost panicked, but after a second, his expression was as steady as a dead dog: "This is not the question we want to talk about now, but since Your Majesty asked, the minister will tell you the truth, at this moment, you are my Li Ran, the woman I love the most, there is no one." ”

You go on. After the empress finished speaking, she added: "I ....... I just asked casually, Wan'er is still so young, you Li Guoshi must not be so well-dressed. ”

Li Ran breathed a long sigh of relief, sister, if you want you to know what I really think in my heart, you have to tear me up?

"Third, the minister went to see Zhang Xiang, there was no other reason, just to make sure that he could help the court and solve Jiang Taiyuan's crisis this time. ”

"Xie Wushuang and Zhang Xiang's son, Zhang Lingchen are friends who have forgotten their years, it can be said that Xie Wushuang dares to be so bold, most of them are due to this relationship, of course, over the years, the Zhang family has gained a lot of benefits in Xie Wushuang's fiefdom. ”

Li Ran paused and said: "Not only that, as far as I know, Zhang Lingchen has a very good personal relationship with the major martial artists and martial arts families among the people, and the business under his name, such as money villages, silk, black market, Caoyun, etc., are all distributed in the fiefdoms of these martial lords, which is where the imperial court can't interfere, so few people know that the richest man in the Daxuan Dynasty is not the Bashu rich Zhou family, but the low-key Zhang Gongzi, or ..... His father, Prime Minister Zhang. ”

"I know these things in my heart, Zhang Ningfu can't move now, if he falls, the court will be in chaos. The empress said lightly: "You better get back to the point." ”

"Hmm. Li Ran was just a temptation, but when he saw the empress say this, he continued: "Now that Xie Wushuang has been beheaded by the minister, and half of his fief has been taken by me to copy, so Zhang Xiang is naturally sick, he is worried that the minister is in Xie Wushuang's hands and has obtained some tricks that are not favorable to him, but in fact, it ...... Not really. ”

"Therefore, Zhang Xiang took the initiative to send someone to deliver the letter and invite me to come over and chat with him. ”

The empress said again: "So he wants to pull you into the gang?"

Li Ran shook his head and said: "Your Majesty is serious, Zhang Xiang is a loyal minister, and he will never form a party for personal gain." ”

The empress seemed to smile: "What do you say." ”

"He is the vanguard of the eldest princess's camp, and he is naturally a great and correct loyal minister. Li Ran said: "So, no matter what, Zhang Xiang will always stand on the side of the imperial court, Jiang Taiyuan dares to enter Beijing to offend, that is his enemy." ”

The empress was silent for a while, and said, "Go on." ”

"White Jade Pavilion Master, Su Muqing's long-lost wife...... Mrs. Xiuyu...... She has a story. Li Ran sighed and said.