A trace of grandeur flitted through Xianqian's heart.It would be bad if the empress misunderstood what she had with Zheng Dayun, or it would be even worse if it involved her and Tang Huaili.Even though the empress dowager had two points of liking for Yao Xi, in fact she still hated eunuchs in her heart, Yao Xi was able to win the favor of the empress dowager largely because this boy didn't look like a eunuch at all.

But Xianqian is also an old man who has experienced countless wind and rain in the palace, she was shocked but her face was not different. She thought about it, and whispered in the Empress Dowager's ear: "My servant sees the wind and rain so hard, Go to Taolin and tell the eunuch who is in charge of ceremonies that there is no need to wait. The eunuch saw that the servant's clothes were wet, so he gave the servant a big cloak and servant."

"The Ai family didn't realize that my aunt is still a bodhisattva." Wan Yu teased.Where did the bodhisattva's heart go when Yao Xi was asked to serve wine with chili peppers?That bullying eunuch in Taolin couldn't bear it if he got a little rain?In her opinion, the eunuch deserved it if he was drenched to death.Sooner or later, she made the eunuch vent her anger on the little eunuch who almost lost his virginity!

Xian Qian accompanied her with a smile and said: "The servant has been with the empress for a long time, so naturally she has some good temperament of the empress."

Wan Yu: "..." Why does this sound like a curse?

Yao Xi was still on his knees waiting for the reward from the Empress Dowager. After the aunt came back, she talked lively with the Empress Dowager. Yao Xi was a little worried, afraid that the Empress Dowager would forget to reward her while chatting with the aunt.

Sure enough, there was nothing to be afraid of, the conversation between the Empress Dowager and Aunt Xianxi continued.

Wan Yu picked up the account book that recorded Hades' account, stood up and said to Xianqian, "Ai's family goes to store something in the vault. The assassin is awake, and I will leave the interrogation to you."

"Yes." Aunt Yuanqian rolled up her sleeves after answering, ready to fight.

After ordering Xianqian, Wan Yu caught a glimpse of Yao Xi who was still kneeling on the ground from the corner of her eye, and said, "Elder-in-law, stop kneeling too, and help Auntie aside!" If you don't go to the eunuch, you can still help a little in terms of physical strength.

Yao Xi's heart aches for Xie En to get up.what?This is no reward?Empress Dowager, you are a big liar who keeps your promises!

After the Queen Mother left, Xianqian smiled and said to Yao Xi: "Bring the charcoal basin to Auntie." Her attitude was gentle and kind, and it was none of her business whether Zheng Dayun and Yao Xi could make it, as long as it had nothing to do with Tang Huaili.

Xianqian and Tang Huaili felt a little uneasy when they were together, not to mention Tang Huaili held a high position, although he had served two emperors, he was only in his 30s, and he was born with a dignified appearance.That's all, what makes her most uneasy is that Tang Huaili and her date are like thieves, Xianqian always feels that Tang Huaili will get tired of such a relationship without even daring to look at each other.

Fortunately, that day has not yet arrived, Yao Xi's incident was just a false alarm.After she misunderstood Yao Xi, she felt a little guilty, so she had a very good attitude.

This made Yao Xi very uneasy.Is this Aunt Xianxi who sent charcoal to her in the fire?She didn't dare to neglect, and quickly brought the charcoal basin to the pillar.

Xian Qian held the charcoal-filling tongs in her hand, and said to the assassin who had just woken up: "You'd better tell the truth, who did you take orders from?"

The assassin was also stubborn: "The demon queen will bring disaster to the country, and everyone will be punished if she gets it. Grandpa, I am entrusted by the destiny!"

Yao Xi listened a little puzzled, did the Empress Dowager do something bad that she hadn't heard of?It is rare for a woman who has lived in the deep palace to be hated to this extent.

Aunt Xianqian picked up a piece of charcoal the size of a fist with pliers, hesitated for a while and replaced it with a finger-sized one, and threatened the assassin's arm: "Don't force Auntie to hit me hard, say it or not!"

When Wan Yu came back again, she saw Xianqian and Yao Xi threatening the assassin with charcoal larger than sesame seeds: "Are you two tickling him? It's crazy what you can ask if you ask like this." Wan Yu walked up to the assassin, took a look at the man, and said to Yao Xi: "Elder-in-law, I don't remember, the Ai family said they would reward you."

Remember, remember, 1 remember.Yao Xi smiled and said: "Saving Jia is the job of a slave, I dare not think about the reward from the empress."

"You will be rewarded for your merits." Wan Yu said with a smile, "Xianxi, bring over the barrel of lamp oil that is in the room." After Wan Yu and Empress Zhu Shi got angry, they ordered the people below, Ning'an Palace Be brightly lit.It is nothing to her to spend this bit of lamp oil, she wants to tell the people in the palace with this all-night light.The queen wants to reduce the expenses of each palace?Aijia was the first to disagree.

Because of Wan Yu's will, the maids of Ning'an Palace put barrels of lamp oil in the ceiling so that they could refill the lamps at any time.

Ordinarily, this kind of physical strength should be ordered to the little eunuch Yao Xi, but Yao Xi has never served in the palace, so he doesn't know where the things are, so Wan Yu can only order Xianqian.

When the lamp oil came, Wan Yu ordered the two of them again: "Pour it around the pillar, and then sprinkle it on the rest of the place."

"Your Majesty? Are you going to..." Xianqian seemed to have guessed what the Empress Dowager was going to do, but she didn't understand why.

Wan Yu looked at the assassin and said with a smile: "Aijia just heard that this strong man said that he was ordered by the sky? Let's see if the sky will save him, and see if it is raining harder this day, or Aijia is burning more. .Do as you are told!"

The assassin's face twitched twice in horror.

Wan Yu sneered and said, "Ai Jia really thinks he is not afraid of death, so he is just a coward."

"Demon Queen, don't be complacent, if you do a lot of evil things, you will be rewarded!" the assassin spat at Wan Yu, bitterly.

"The Ai family has not been taken away by the Lord, which means that the evil has not been done enough?" Wan Yu said with a contemptuous smile: "If you use money to do things, you will use money to do things. You really think that you are doing evil for the people." Are you a righteous man? By the way, take a good look at Aijia. If you want to take revenge in your next life, don’t admit the wrong person. But you have to pay close attention to it. When the fire burns, your eyeballs will explode with a bang, and then you will see nothing. Gone."

Yao Xi, who was spilling lamp oil nearby, was terrified.The empress dowager spared her twice, but she forgot that the empress dowager's reputation as a demon queen was not groundless, it was earned through years of painstaking efforts!

Most of the hall was sprinkled with lamp oil, and Wan Yu took an oil lamp in her hand and led the two of them out of the hall.

When she arrived outside the palace, Wan Yu ordered the maids and eunuchs guarding outside: "From now on, don't speak out unless you have the family's will." After giving the order, she threw the oil lamp at the assassin.

The fire burned around the assassin, and spread along the lamp oil sprinkled by Xianqian and Yao Xi in the hall.

The rain kept falling, but the fire grew bigger and bigger, and the main hall of Ning'an Palace became a ball of fire in a blink of an eye.

Wan Yu led the people of Ning'an Palace to stand in the yard, and said to Yao Xi: "Elder-in-law has done a great job in rescuing you, this fire is a reward from the Ai family."

Yao Xi had a question mark on his face.

Is this the so-called reward?

I saved your life and you show me this?

And why there is an inexplicable feeling that King You of Zhou smiled for Bo Baosi and played the feudal princes?

Furthermore, what does it mean that this fire is a reward for me?Niang Niang, you want to play with fire yourself, why do you want me to take the blame?

***

Yu Meiren didn't have a good time in Jingling Palace for the past two days. The south room had already been occupied by someone. Jingling Palace was just a courtyard with two entrances. There were not many houses and they were all occupied, and no one wanted to share with her. She lives with her.At night, she could only make do with sleeping under the eaves, as if the sins she committed in the past had been repaid in the past two days.

Someone knocked over her bowl while eating, and someone threw stones and hit her injured buttocks while walking. Fortunately, the bottle of medicine given by Lan Guiren made the wound heal quickly, otherwise she would have been bullied to death by the women in the cold palace.

Yao Shuanglan sat in the room, looking at Yu Meiren under the rain eaves, thinking about something.Jingling Palace was too dilapidated, the eaves kept leaking rain, and Yu Meiren couldn't avoid it.

She has no intention of avenging Yan Guiren. It is true that Yan Guiren was framed by Yu Meiren and put into the cold palace, but no one's hands are clean.Yan Guiren's bleak end was not because of kindness, but because of weakness, not being able to beat the beauty.Changing places, Yan nobles may not show mercy to beauties.

All the same color.

She treats the women in the cold palace well because there is no need to treat people badly in this place, and if necessary, she will not show mercy.Yu Meiren said that her father and mother went to southern Xinjiang, and her younger brother escaped?How can it be.Her father and mother only have a pair of children, she and A Xian. When she entered the palace, how could the younger brother leave his parents and run away alone?Brother, something happened.

She can no longer hide in the cold palace and live a stable life. Before she was thrown into the cold palace, she knew that Eunuch Tang was investigating the Yao family's case, but this is the Yao family's business, so she can't just point fingers at others.She entered the cold palace to avoid disaster, and now it's time to go out.Parents should be fine, but she has to find her younger brother, of course it is best if he is still alive, if he dies, he will have revenge.

There are two ways to leave the cold palace.Either pass a letter to Princess Longyi and ask her to invite the emperor over.Or find a way to lure the emperor here.

She blocked the secret channel for delivering letters left by Princess Longyi a year ago.Even if she wanted to know the news about her parents, even if there were many difficulties in Jingling Palace, she never thought of asking Princess Longyi for help.She had to get rid of the bad idea of ​​the eldest princess, so that she could not mislead others for life.

Yao Shuanglan looked at Yu Meiren who was shivering under the rain eaves again, and made up her mind.

She got up leisurely and went to sit down in front of the makeup mirror. Since the last time the Empress Dowager came, there was blood on the makeup mirror. It looked strange and cautious at night. She wiped it with a cloth towel, and there was still a faint stain.

Yao Shuanglan moved the stool to avoid the remaining blood, and took off the broken wooden hairpin facing the mirror, combed the hair carefully, took a plain silver hairpin from the drawer, and fixed the bun.He found another powder box, rubbed the congealed powder in the palm of his hand, and gently patted it on his face. Finally, he changed into moon-white clothes.

Dressed up, picked up the paper umbrella in the house, opened the door and went out.

Yu Meiren trembled from time to time when she was frightened by the thunder.The weather has warmed up in May, and it's okay for her to sleep under the eaves on a sunny night. Although it's cold, she gritted her teeth and survived.But today the rain was getting heavier and heavier, the wind was blowing more and more violently, and it was as cold as winter. If she stayed here overnight, she would be frozen to death.Even if they are not frozen to death, they will still catch wind and cold. No one cares whether people in Jingling Palace live or die.

She looked at the sky worriedly, hoping for the rain to stop. The rain from the roof leaked on the top of her head, but Yu Meiren didn't respond at all, she was used to it.Suddenly, the raindrops that kept pouring on her head stopped. Yu Meiren looked up and saw that there was an extra paper umbrella on her head, and the person holding the umbrella was Lan Guiren.

It's just that Lan Guiren looks different from the past. He used to wear azurite or indigo, but today he is dressed in crescent white, holding an umbrella under the rain eaves like a fairy.

"Beauty, go to my room and rest for a while. If it's cold, you will get sick if you stand here for a long time." Yao Shuanglan said with a smile.There was a trace of apology in the gentle smile, even if she let the beauty leave her alone, she would be tortured to death, but it was human life anyway.

After Meiren Yu entered the cold palace, she felt that this nobleman from Lan was not as kind as the servants had said, and was a very scheming person, so she was a little suspicious when she was suddenly invited, so she didn't move.

"Are you afraid that I will hurt the beauty?" Yao Shuanglan lowered her head and smiled, "Does the beauty think that she can live until tomorrow if she spends the night here? It's so cold, and you're only wearing unlined clothes..."

Yu Meiren thought about it for a while and thought it was true, so she let go of her guard and wanted to enter the house. Seeing Lan Guiren standing still, she couldn't help asking: "Will Lan Guiren go back with me?"

Yao Shuanglan shook her head and said, "My room is too small to accommodate two people. I'll find other sisters to squeeze in for a night."

Yao Shuanglan stood under the eaves holding an umbrella, watching Yu Meiren enter her room, after about two quarters of an hour, thinking that Yu Meiren must have fallen asleep as sleepy as she was.Yao Shuanglan went to the window of the house, opened the window, sprinkled the oil lamp on the table next to the window on the clothes she just changed, and then took out the fire pocket and threw it in.Immediately afterwards, the window was inserted backwards, and the door was locked from the outside.

Jingling Palace is full of rotten wood, which burns quickly.

Yu Meiren might have fainted from the smoke, but Yao Shuanglan didn't even hear her screams while standing under the eaves.

Jiu'er ran out of the room smelling the smoke, and asked Yao Shuanglan, "Sister Lan, where is the fire?"

Yao Shuanglan pointed to her room: "Yu Meiren caught fire and committed suicide."

"In your house?"

"In her room." Yao Shuanglan smiled and looked at Jiu'er after speaking.

Jiu'er nodded knowingly: "She deserves it too."

***

Seeing that the fire was getting closer and closer, almost reaching his body, the assassin was so frightened that he finally confessed loudly: "I say! I say! It's Mr. Yang Ge!!!"

Wan Yu happily ordered someone to close the gate of the palace.

"Xiao Yaozi, have you ever seen such a big fire?" Wan Yu said triumphantly as she watched the fire grow bigger and bigger.Emperor Ming Cheng's troubles all point to this fire.

"Yes." Yao Xi didn't look at the fire in Ning'an Palace, but looked elsewhere.

Wan Yu followed Yao Xi's line of sight, and there was also a raging fire in the direction of Jingling Palace, and it was bigger and fiercer than hers.Wan Yu felt an unpleasant feeling of being overwhelmed: Is there something wrong with this?

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