The timing of what Aozen said came in a month without warning.

That day happened to be the winter solstice, and the sky was covered with a faint snowflake, and Aozen walked into the courtyard with only a thin cloak on his body. The monks are not afraid of the cold and the heat, so for them, like the jade hairpin jewelry, it is just to decorate themselves.

Qing Ran likes to make these meaningless decorations as a pastime when he is bored, even though Steward Zhou has expressed his confusion many times.

"It's snowing, but this year's snow is really unpleasant. ”

The plain white umbrella in his hand turned slightly, shaking off the snowflakes, and Qing Ran narrowed his eyes slightly. The ban blocked all sounds that could come from the outside world, and even the offensive spells she cast were all absorbed by the ban and became ineffective.

The ban is also called the magic circle, the magic circle is divided into twelve layers, often the bottom layer is the real effect of the magic circle, and the upper eleven layers are mostly the magic circle that protects that layer, the more layers of the magic circle want to dismantle, the more troublesome it is.

However, it does not mean that the more layers there are, the stronger the circle, each circle has its own usefulness, and it cannot be judged from one aspect alone.

But those who can superimpose the twelve layers of magic arrays are all forbidden masters, and what this Xuanwu Empire can do is only four people.

One of them is Qing Ran's nominal father, the head of the Mo family, Mo Feiyun, and the remaining three are also cronies or subordinates of the royal family.

Obviously, this prohibition is specially designed to make dishonest guys like Qingye suffer for themselves, so they are also deliberately superimposed with twelve layers.

To open the ban, you need a jade slip, which records the prohibition that can cancel each other out with the ban, in short, a one-time key.

As for the jade slip, Qing Ran has been stealing and copying it for a long time, because she really doesn't have much attainment in prohibition, even though she is in the Mo family who is proficient in prohibition, she can only learn some basics, so she can only rely on jade slip to get out of here.

But there are always exceptions.

"Miss!"

Steward Zhou got in from the hole in the corner of the house, and shouted at the green dye in the courtyard, this small hole is only enough for one person to creep in and out, because the magic circle does not restrict the entry and exit of inanimate items, so only Steward Zhou and some other small puppets can enter and exit at will.

"What are you shouting! I guess what you're going to say, probably because you bumped into a concubine and a guard again today, right? ”

Plucking out his ears, he was very unhappy that this picturesque atmosphere was destroyed, and sat impatiently on a stone next to him.

"Uh...... That's not the case. ”

Steward Zhou was stunned for a moment, he really likes to talk about this to relieve boredom on weekdays, but this time it is a very important thing.

"The queen fell ill, and the emperor invited a famous doctor, saying that he would not live for more than a month. This person really can't tell when there will be a major illness or a small disaster. ”

I remembered that when I saw the queen by chance a few days ago, she was still radiant, but in the past two days, she suddenly said that she was sick, and even Steward Zhou couldn't find a suitable answer.

"Queen Liu Liruo's backer is nothing more than the Liu family behind her, but in the past few decades, the Liu family has been worse day by day, since the past few years have sent troops to encircle and suppress demon cultivation, many monks in the transformation period have been seriously injured and even after the Yuan Shen lamp was broken, not to mention those who advanced to the God Transformation Period, there are not even a few advanced Yuan Infants, and even the Liu family's unique mental method of suppressing inner demons has almost been learned by the emperor.

The value that can be used has been squeezed clean, no wonder the emperor has moved to abolish the queen. The monk had already opened the valley, so how could he still get sick?

But in this way, the candidate for the latter position is nothing more than looking for it in the Mo family, but which of the daughters sent by the Mo family is good at stubble, if you don't want the harem to be controlled by the Mo family, I'm afraid you have to choose from other families. ”

Dragging his cheeks, Qing Ran cocked Erlang's legs very unconvincingly, and continued to pinch his ears.

"But now that the Liu family is in decline and the Mo family is dominant, if it weren't for Mo Feiyun's old guy who was loyal to our emperor and once blocked him with a knife, I'm afraid he would have been killed a long time ago. So no matter what, this throne is going to fall to the Mo family, and the emperor has no choice. ”

"Miss, are you saying that there are new people entering the palace again?"

Steward Zhou didn't understand these government affairs, let alone the intrigue in the harem, so he could only pick the most obvious question to ask.

Qing Ran glanced at him and smiled,

"Yes, and I think he will remember that there is such a person who bears the name of the daughter of the Mo family, but will definitely not be controlled by the Mo family. ”

"This person can't be Miss You, right?!"

Steward Zhou felt that Qing Ran was really crazy, it had already come to this point, how could he still be respectfully invited out, or to be the queen, it was a fool's dream.

Ignoring Steward Zhou's reaction, Qing Ran held up the white umbrella in his hand, drew a mark on the snow on the edge of his clothes, and smiled faintly, like a frost flower blooming.

"We'll see. ”

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Half a month later, the roofs of the entire imperial city were covered with white cloths, and passers-by, whether children or old women, or strong young men and cardamom girls, were all dressed in vegetarian clothes.

The news of the queen's death spread to every corner of the imperial city, and the emperor held a funeral for her that seemed to be worth a lot of money, and as far as Steward Zhou said, the one lying in the coffin was indeed the queen herself, not a stand-in.

It's just a pity that a beauty in the late Yuan Infant period sacrificed the possibility of ascension for the emperor's hegemony.

When Qing Ran received the news, he didn't have any expression on his face, and he was dressed in white on weekdays, so he didn't have to change it deliberately.

Liu Liruo, who has had a few encounters with her, is beautiful, although she is not unforgettable at a glance, but she is also a rare beauty.

She always speaks kindly on weekdays, and she also takes care of other concubines, dignified and virtuous, gentle and generous, proficient in calligraphy and painting, and is the best candidate for the family to train to enter the palace.

This kind of puppet who obliterates itself at the time of birth in the first place for the sake of family interests is truly pathetic.

And it's not just the Liu family that does this, isn't it the same with the Mo family?

Obviously, in this immortal cultivation world, where whoever cultivates is high, his fist is hard, but he is still subject to the family, and he can't live happily in his life, and he can't decide for himself in life, not even death.

Qing Ran took out a piece of high-grade rice paper from the storage bag, a wolf pen, researched a piece of fragrant ink, and wrote a few big characters on the paper.

It's just an ordinary pen and paper, not an uncommon object.

A small cluster of flames is lit in his hand and the rice paper is burned.

Ashes drifted through the snow with the cold wind.

"Miss, what did you write on it?"

Steward Zhou saw that she was rarely willing to use her pen once, and couldn't help but wonder what she had written.

"You are born without yourself, and you should not be responsible for yourself in the next life. ”

Putting the pen and ink into the storage bag, Qing Ran took out a piece of jade slip, "It's time to go." ”